Bird Lovers Only Rescue: Snowball Makes World News.
A bit late, since the article was in May, but here’s the scholarly scoop on that dancing parrot, neuroscience, beat perception, synchronization and induction, my new ‘pet’ subject (if you’ll excuse the pun). Ani Patel’s book Music, Language and the Brain was my inspiration of the year, so this is good stuff (he’s a co-author of the article about dancing parrots, Experimental evidence for synchronization to a musical beat in a nonhuman animal.)
