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Today you learn about a cockatoo that proves humans aren't the only animals who can dance,

and a trick for reducing anxiety and getting along better with

others with some help from authors Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann. We'll also

answer a listener question about what would happen if the world went vegan.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Believe it or not, sometimes we can learn something from viral videos online.

All the way back in 2007, one of the first viral videos pretty much ever

featured a cockatoo named Snowball, who danced

along to the Back Street Boys Classic Everybody Back Street's Back.

That video is now helping scientists understand the evolutionary underpinnings of dance.

That's because one of the six and a half million people who watched the video was

neurobiologist Anirud Patel.

He felt the bird may be demonstrating a skill we've never seen in a non-human animal before,

and he envisioned an experiment to figure out whether Snowball was dancing from his soul

or just playing parrot. So for a paper in 2009, Patel and his team

produced 11 different versions of Snowball's favorite

Backstreet Boys hit with varying tempos.

They found that Snowball stayed on beat about 25% of the time,

which might be a disappointing number if it comes from that hotty you're crushing on at a nightclub on a Saturday night.

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