Then, after the study, Snowball’s co-owner Irena Schulz contacted Aniruddh Patel, a psychologist at Tufts University and Harvard University, when she noticed Snowball had begun to explore new moves that he discovered himself — ones that he would break out in response to music, and which he had not been taught. After studying his moves in more depth, Patel and his colleagues have concluded they have evidence to believe that parrots and humans share the capability to dance when the music calls them to. According to the study, published this week in Current Biology, Snowball has 14 unique dance moves that are prompted by music.