Animals Love Music Too

Our animals, as members of the family that are, share  activities and likes with us . Right? Or at least that’s what the owners believe . Certainly, more than once you’ve been surprised by the  your cat attentively looking at the television screen. Or found your dog sleeping peacefully while listening to a nice background melody.

What their owners don’t really know is how animals decode these visual and audible signals they receive and what they mean to them.

in the desire of to demonstrate that animals enjoy music as much as humans,  some research has been done and, over the years,  emerged new disciplines, such as zoomusicology .

Investigations to show that animals love music too

–   Time ago, galaxy (the network of national radio music channels Canadian ) conducted a study that concluded that domestic animals are fond of music.

observed what dogs and cats reacted differently with different songs and even had favorite themes. They also warned that when pets were  SOS  at home, they preferred to listen to soft music from background  than silence.

– Scientists at the School of Psychology at the University of queens They arrived to the conclusion that classical music helps in  relaxation of dogs, reduces barking and increases the time they devote to rest.

On the contrary, if let’s make him listen to songs like the style  heavy metal, the agitation level will increase and the barking will become endless. Any similar effect these songs have on humans, it doesn’t seem like a simple coincidence.

– It’s been more than 100 years since an experiment at the Zoo in Bronx has been accomplished. The test  was published in the newspaper The new York Times with the name “The Effects of Music on Animals of the zoo “.  

The article reported the reactions of different species to musical stimuli. For example, it was observed that orangutans liked Caruso’s interpretations and that they moved their bodies to the beat of the swing. On the contrary, the coyotes and wolves manifested fright and  lack of tranquility.

– One hundred years later, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin did a study with primates and found that monkeys reacted to sounds according to intensity : some melodies relaxed them and others altered their behavior.

– According to an investigation by the queen’ s University from Belfast, classical music is a favorite of cats and dogs. Convinced of this, an American musician, Félix Pando, recorded an album with compositions by great authors classics bad i s adapted  for these animals.

Like? It generated relaxing melodies emitted by instruments whose sounds and frequencies are particle attractive to them. Your music also has special effects like the sound of birds , howls and barks.

– Other studies found that some cows increased the production of milk  when they listened to Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” and that pigs gain more weight quickly  listening to Mozart as music from background .

The researchers concluded that the cause of Those effects was the rhythm and not the melody.

A song for each animal

THE zoomusicology – also called zoosemiotics  – is a fusion between zoology and musicology, which studies the music of animals and how these beings respond to sounds and what effects are provoked on them.

O psychologist Charles snowdon found that the best way to study the effect of music on these beings was to create a certain music for each species, as they listen in frequencies different from humans.

It was then that specialists generated music from the mixture of rhythms, with the same range of frequencies that the cats use to communicate with each other, and songs that have a rhythm similar to the rhythm of the purr.

Therefore, taking as shown 47 cats, it was determined that the animals Showed  your preference for songs composed especially for them.

Every time these melodies sounded, some of the cats brushed the  face with the speakers. In contrast, they remained apathetic when had than listening to traditional classical music that humans enjoy.

What is certain is that, although everything seems to demonstrate what the people have different tastes are you of dear pets, in matter musical, we share the taste for listening to good music, according to the parameters of each a .