Listen: Why Scientists Have Created Music Just for Cats
Most animals don't groove to
human beats, but they will respond to music that's tailored to their
hearing abilities, ongoing research shows.
Tibby the
cat listens to a radio program on February 1, 1926. A new study shows
that our pet felines enjoy music that's tailored to their ears. Photograph by Hulton-Deutsch Collection, Corbis
I once had a friend in an experimental jazz
group. When asked what instrument he played, he replied, "It's not that
kind of band."
That's the vibe behind the answer to our Weird Animal Question of the
Week. People have varying ideas about what music is and, it turns out,
some animals do too.
Our question comes via Facebook from Victoria Lawrence, whose
eight-month-old son Atticus seems to bounce to a beat. She wrote: "It
made me wonder: How easy is it to understand music and at what capacity
do other animals understand it ...?"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150313-animals-music-cats-tamarins-psychology-science/
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