A parrot which can actually “dance” made the scientists to reevaluate their opinions on bird intelligence. Snowball, a 13-year-old Cockatoo Parrot loves to move his head and his legs on pop and rock music.

His moves made him a star of the Internet and determined scientists to believe that humans are not the only creatures who can move according to the beat.

The parrot shakes his head, moves sideways and shakes his body according to the beat of Queen, The Backstreet Boys or Lady Gaga music.

Scientists measured the rhythm of the music in order to see how much of a dancer is Snowball. Using scientific synchronization measuring items, they proved that the rhythm of the music and the dance of the parrot coincided.

“We demonstrated that if the rhythm of the music increases or decreases, the parrot adjusts the tempo of his dance in order to keep up with the beat. I was shocked. I’ve never seen something like this my whole life!” Aniruddh Patel, Doctor at Neuroscience Institute in San Diego declared.

Snowball is a phenomenon because is the first animal which has the necessary documentation to prove the fact that he is actually dancing according to the music.

Doctor Patel and his colleagues studied Snowball and other hundreds of birds. The scientists searched Youtube videos with dancing animals, including parrots, dogs and cats. Afterwards, they analyzed the videos comparing the speed of the music with the movements of the animals.

From over 1.000 videos, scientists discovered that 14 species of parrots and a type of elephant can move according to the music beat. Chimpanzees, dogs and cats seem to have no sense of music.

After they identified the dancing birds, the scientists analyzed Snowball who lived in a bird shelter in Indiana. They believe that the sense of the rhythm at parrots is connected to their capacity of copying songs.

The same dancing ability may be found in other animals which can copy sounds, such as dolphins, seals, elephants and singing birds.