Music and Animals?

[Neurotic Void Melody]

The other week I happened to be housesitting essentially a micro-zoo of animals as part of a regular agreement for people, with a few different breeds of parrot in one of the main rooms in which I used for painting, and started noticing a particular parrot - that would only ever normally squawk - began to react peculiarly to a specific music track I had on a playlist. He would start producing a seemingly endless variety of different bird song sounds non-stop throughout the track, yet was quiet with everything else played. I tested this, throwing in other tracks to see if it was my imagination, but each of the 5 times the precise track performed, so did the parrot. And on the 5th time a baby chick that was being cared for in the room decided to join in too!
The track in mention is;

So in curiosity, I looked up to see if this was something ever researched, and lo and behold;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9762709/Parrots-have-personal-musical-tastes-and-even-like-to-sing-a-long-scientists-find.html

http://www.medicaldaily.com/parrots-have-personal-preferences-music-all-despise-dance-music-244041

Has anybody else had experience with animals reacting to music in intriguing ways?

 

[balladbird]

Oh yeah, birds are the most vocal animals you'll find, outside humans, so it stands to reason they have a sense of rhythm and appreciation of music. It's well known among us amateur ornithologists. XD

My conures like to bob their heads to the backstreet boys, and I'm taking care of a hyacinth macaw who insists upon singing the last line of the spongebob squarepants theme... over and over and over and over.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

To be honest I prefer cows that listen to Pink Floyd, and I don't even bother with them if they haven't herd of Rock and Roll. I made the misteak once of hanging out with heifer who listened to dubstep moosic and it was udder bullshit.

 

[MysticSlayer]

One of my grandparents' dogs absolutely hated music. Every time music played, he would whine, try to cover his ears, and find someone to hold him until the music stopped. I think my aunt said that he had been rescued from abuse, and we think he associated music with the abuse for some reason. It also didn't matter the type. Everything from peaceful piano melodies to black metal would put him off.

The good news is that he didn't seem to mind background music in movies and TV, just when music was by itself. So we were at least able to watch TV without him constantly being afraid.

 

[NPC009]

I have some pet rabbits and one of them seems to have an interest in music. One of them seems to have three settings:
1. neutral
2. interested
3. upset

The first one is the most common reaction, but sometimes he hears a song that, I don't know, sounds good to him? He becomes extra alert and acts curious towards it. Ears go up, he sits up straight and if he's really into it, he might make some of those playful jumps rabbits make. However, once in a while there's a song he does not like at all. He'll be alert in a negative way and even thump to warn the other rabbits.

I have't been able to figure out his taste in music, yet, though. I think it may have something to do with the singers. For instance, the opening song of Tales of Graces f got bad reactions, but the instrumental version got a positive one.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

To be honest I prefer cows that listen to Pink Floyd, and I don't even bother with them if they haven't herd of Rock and Roll. I made the misteak once of hanging out with heifer who listened to dubstep moosic and it was udder bullshit.

Well they already have "Whalestep"...Hehe;


Cowstep isn't too much of a leap

Oh yeah, birds are the most vocal animals you'll find, outside humans, so it stands to reason they have a sense of rhythm and appreciation of music. It's well known among us amateur ornithologists. XD

My conures like to bob their heads to the backstreet boys, and I'm taking care of a hyacinth macaw who insists upon singing the last line of the spongebob squarepants theme... over and over and over and over.

Thst sounds pretty neat. We need more parrot vocalist! Maybe even a choir. There was a parrot an accidental acquaintance had that would headbang whenever i attempted to beatbox towards it. Was highly entertaining