Funky skunk caught on camera doing unusual handstand dance The stinky mammal uses an elaborate warning dance, involving handstands and tail waving, to warn off aggressors before spraying them with its noxious liquid. The dance may make them seem bigger in size to a predator, and If it doesn’t back off, the aggressor could face a rapid-fire attack from its potent spray. The researchers proposed that the reason humans and parrots share a natural ability to dance may arise from the convergence of five traits - vocal learning, the capacity for nonverbal movement imitation, a tendency to form long-term social bonds, the ability to learn complex sequences of actions, and attentiveness to communicative movements. Writing in Current Biology, the authors said: 'Snowball does not dance for food or in order to mate instead, his dancing appears to be a social behaviour used to interact with human caregivers (his surrogate flock).' The researchers believe his 'remarkably diverse spontaneous movements' show that dancing is not limited to humans, but a response to music when certain conditions are present in the brain.Īnalysis of his moves revealed them to be clearly intentional but not an 'efficient means of achieving any plausible external goal'. Later, they noticed him displaying a greater range of movements than he had never been taught, and in 2019 he was the focus of a second study by scientists from the University of California, San Diego.ĭespite his lack of formal training, the cockatoo came up with 14 different moves by himself while listening to 80s classics. It is thought the duration of this dance indicates the flowers' quality.
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This tells the watching bees that the flower patch is nearby to the hive. Sometimes, instead of the waggle dance, the bee walks in a circle, turns around, then walks the same circle in the opposite direction. If the sun were in a different position, the angle would stay the same, but the direction to the correct flower patch would be different.
Outside the hive, bees look at the position of the sun, and fly at the very same angle that they've just observed, going away from the sun. To do this, bees dance with the waggle run at a specific angle. The length of the middle line, called the waggle run, shows roughly how far it is to the flower patch.īees know which way is up and which way is down inside their hive, and they use this to show direction. The dancing bee waggles back and forth as she moves forward in a straight line, then circles around to repeat the dance. The waggle dance tells the watching bees two things about a flower patch's location – the distance and the direction away from the hive.
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