beat parrot

Henkjan Honing is my former teacher and one of the few Music psychologists in the Netherlands. He appears often in the media, and also manages a blogger page. It was when I was looking for new media appearances of him on youtube that I came accross the beat parrot. It is generally assumed that music is a human thing, and no animals can understand or create music. This is why is it interesting to see this parrot "dancing" on the beat of a song. Notice how he "looses" the beat when the beat of the song is less obvious. He gets better towards the end of the video as well. Enjoy!