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02nd Apr 2017

WATCH: The internet has gone cuckoo for the Elvis-impersonating cockatoo

Rory Cashin

If this doesn’t put a big smile on your face, nothing will.

There’s nothing much to this video, to be honest.

It has some guy in his kitchen, playing the guitar and singing Elvis Presley’s ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, to his two pet cockatoos.

But while one of them stands mostly perfectly still, sometimes giving the embarrassed side-eye to their companion, the other one is absolutely losing his mind, bopping his head in time and giving the full feather display in appreciation for one of The King’s best songs.

Unsurprisingly, the internet immediately fell in love:

See?

Sometimes all you need is a nice dancing cockatoo video for the world to seem like a much nicer place.