http://www.madprime.org/articles/2009/05/01/youtube-meme-becomes-scientific-study en-us 40 <p>You may have seen him before: Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo. <a href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/430/1">ScienceNOW Daily News reports</a> on a Current Biology study - a neurobiologist went to study the bird and sees dancing as a phenomenon connected to the ability to imitate sounds. A companion paper looks for dancing ability in a number of animals, but only found it in animals that were able to vocally mimic sounds.</p> <p>If you haven't watched the video you definitely have have to. If you have... it's worth watching some again. :-) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N7IZmRnAo6s&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N7IZmRnAo6s&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p> Fri, 01 May 2009 21:26:00 -0400 urn:uuid:bfd9286a-5c7f-4b7c-8b32-3d123153dd6d Madeleine Ball http://www.madprime.org/articles/2009/05/01/youtube-meme-becomes-scientific-study science youtube hahahaha! Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:22:57 -0400 urn:uuid:6e421b9e-4806-4f95-8c5f-ce271f47fe1c http://www.madprime.org/articles/2009/05/01/youtube-meme-becomes-scientific-study#comment-3979