A study exploring dance behaviors in captive cockatoos has found that these birds have an impressive repertoire of 30 distinct moves—and some are even able to make their own choreographs by combining them.

The researchers, led by Natasha Lubke from Charles Sturt University in Australia, analyzed 45 videos posted on social media and documented multiple different moves ranging from headbanging to sidesteps, foot taps and body rolls.

About 17 of these dancing behaviors had never before been described in scientific literature. Surprisingly, closely related species did not display more similar dances than others, and each species had a unique top 10 most common dance moves.

The study also examined six cockatoos from the Wagga Wagga zoo in Australia, pairing them with birds of the opposite se

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