Eleonora Cockatoo - Intelligence and Beat Perception

Intelligence and Beat Perception

One notable Eleonora Cockatoo is Snowball, a bird recently demonstrated to be capable of beat induction - in other words, that the bird is capable of perceiving a musical beat and dancing to it.

Like all cockatoos, the Eleonora Cockatoo is widely considered to be very intelligent and emotionally complex.

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