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Musings on a Dancing Bird

May 14, 2009

It went viral. Millions of people have watched it. I posted links to three separate articles about it. It’s Snowball the dancing bird. I listened to the following podcast this morning. Irena Schultz from NPR’s On Science did a more in-depth story on the science (and research) of dancing animals. To summarize: It seems that […]

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The Daily Blog 5/02/2009

May 4, 2009

All three of these links are related to the story of Snowball, the parrot who “dances” to music. This research has some interesting implications for understanding how and why rhythm influences movement patterns: gross motor, fine motor, and speech production. 1) Scientists: Some animals able to “dance” to music 2) Remarkable dancing birds: A cure […]

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