Snowball (TM) - Japanese TV

Snowball (TM) and Irena appeared on a Japanese TV program along the lines of Believe it or Not.
The premise of the show was to see if Snowball would dance to any of the music that they brought with them. They had several CDs, but Snowball looked at us in a very disinterested way. He did manage to dance to one of the songs, but it was probably out of desparation to dance to something other than a children's song, classical music, and romantic ballads. Snowball is quite picky!
Irena Schulz is in collaboration with Dr. Ani Patel from the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego on cognitive music studies with Snowball as the subject of study. This program does touch on that research.
We completely enjoyed having this film crew out to our rescue and we sincerely thank them for including us in their show!
Bird Lovers Only Rescue Service, Inc. is a 501c3 not for profit bird rescue and sanctuary located in northwest Indiana in the United States.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Snowball
• Dancing
• Cockatoo
• Rescue
• Parrot

[BirdLoversOnly]

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Irena Schulz - Bird Lovers Only Rescue

[werecatgirl]

Japanese shows crack me up haha I totally didn't expect a dancing priest lol!

[BirdLoversOnly]

This show is my personal favorite! I still grabbed onto what was implied even though I couldn't understand Japanese. It was VERY enjoyable for us to film! If I'm not mistaken, the priest is actually one of Japan's most famous and loved comedians.

Irena Schulz - Bird Lovers Only Rescue Service, Inc.

[pixelizr]

I think Snowball did not respond to the first Japanese songs because they were played from a laptop, which probably did not provide much bass nor volume. When you played music on your desktop PC, which had proper audio capabilities, we saw that he was able to more easily capture the beat and respond. Somewhere in the clip, the announcer quipped that Snowball did not respond at all to Japanese songs. But I don't think the songs being from Japan mattered at all. It was just the audio quality.

[BirdLoversOnly]

Extensive research has been done on parrots regarding their hearing capabilities. They cannot hear the low tones, nor can they hear the very high tones. We experimented with Snowball last year with playing the same song through various different sound systems including a very high quality Bose sound system. He responded the same no matter what the quality of the sound system. He is listening to the midrange.

Irena Schulz - Bird Lovers Only Rescue Service, Inc.

[gaforb]

excellent rythmn for a white bird!

[harmoniamonde]

The last comment said that " He can even read atmosphere (the last cd is Japanese TV personality George Tokoro's "best" album which is not a smash hit at all, but snowball give him a mercy)"

[WhiteMysticalWolf]

i wish there was subs lol

[lloveComedy]

2:17 - 2:19 That voice over really fit to that woman. xD

[donjuandonjuan]

I don't think the cockatoo understand's japanese music O.O

[XxPuppyTheCaninexX]

xD Ohmygosh, I take Japanese and I love birds so much! x3 I have Eclectus.

[NodDisciple1]

Isn't the music from 4:40 from Team America? :?

[vampireheart115]

Dudes I think the best music for this bird would be some kind of metal because of his excellent headbanging at 4:35 (very lovely^^) and some kind of house^^

like this bird^^

[greengrendel]

subtitles?