The movie shows three excerpts of videos analyzed in this experiment. Each excerpt is at a tempo different from the original song (Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys; 108.7 beats per minute [bpm]). The excerpts include synchronized bouts, periods during which Snowball bobs his head in synchrony with the musical beat for at least 12 consecutive bobs.
Current Biology 19(10), published online April 30, 2009.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/supplemental/S0960-9822%2809%2900890-2
Good lord, that's Backstreet Boys "Rock Your Body"
setsunasamachan 1 month ago
ahahahahah spectacular xD
MrDonBenny 6 months ago
Do they do this without being told or trained?
lovelylittlelaugher 10 months ago
Those birds have awesome rhythm!
(I was brought here by Scientific American: Mind magazine, in reference to other animals with a sense of rhythm.)
Xan81 2 years ago
nice video
asaframos 2 years ago
Wonderful!
ubentu 2 years ago