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Are we bird or are we dancer? A look at why dancing animals like Snowball the cockatoo are so rare: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/what-snowball-dancing-parrot-tells-us-about-dance/593428/

Neuroscientist Aniruddh Patel theorizes that dancing animals must:

- be complex vocal learners, with the accompanying ability to connect sound and movement
- be able to imitate movements
- be able to learn complex sequences of actions
- be attentive to the movements of others
- form long-term social bonds

And maybe must also be exposed to music.

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