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So grab your cuppa, and join in!
Humans dance. For a number of reasons, to all kinds of sounds, and in many forms. But we aren’t the only ones.
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even fish who have no knees do it!
My favorites are the sea horses — such ‘Romantics’:
“The male and female seahorse come together repeatedly every morning to dance together” to reinforce their pair bond, says Amanda Vincent, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia and founder of the conservation group Project Seahorse.
They change color as they move together, sometimes with tails entwined.
That tail, says George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History, is prehensile, anchoring them to things like blades of sea grass with a grip Burgess compares to a baby grasping an adult’s finger.
A whole planet of dancing fools. Will you, won’t you, join the dance?
There’s way too much in our lives that isn’t fun or happy these days, so shake it up baby: