Do animals hear music?

PostDo animals hear music? by **Pontius Pilate** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:55 pm

I've often wondered if animals can hear music. Do the notes that sound nice to us, sound nice to them? Or do they just hear noise and think nothing of it. Birds are known to sing, and often their songs have similarities to human songs. What do you think?

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Qikz** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:01 pm

I think they can. :wub:

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Jax** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:16 pm

If the frequency is in their hearing range, yeah. But don't know about if they hear it as a rhythm - thought I heard of some studies done into it though.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Skarjo** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:55 pm

Do they hear music; Yes.

Do they react to music; Yes.

Do they understand music; No.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Rightey** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:29 am

Fatal Exception wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

My first thought.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Dandy Kong** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:29 am

I don't think they can hear harmonics and 'understand' or 'interpret' music like we humans can.

Birds, generally, are masters at imitating sounds. In the street where I used to live there was a bird that did a perfect imitation of the 'incoming text message sound' of Nokia phones.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **abcd** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:06 am

My dog always knows when the simpsons is on.

True story

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Octoroc** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:11 am

abcd wrote:My dog always knows when the simpsons is on.

True story

Your dog can read TV schedules? That's proper boss that laaa.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by JK » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:27 am

Skarjo wrote:Do they hear music; Yes.

Do they react to music; Yes.

Do they understand music; No.

We're talking about pets, not My Chemical Romance fans.

:fp:

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **Irene Demova** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:30 am

JK wrote:
Skarjo wrote:Do they hear music; Yes.

Do they react to music; Yes.

Do they understand music; No.

We're talking about pets, not My Chemical Romance fans.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **abcd** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:42 pm

Octoroc wrote:
abcd wrote:My dog always knows when the simpsons is on.

True story

Your dog can read TV schedules? That's proper boss that laaa.

He does know what time I'm due home from work....so I'm pretty sure he know when the simpsons is on.

PostRe: Do animals hear music? by **blackoutHERO** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:50 pm

JK wrote:
Skarjo wrote:Do they hear music; Yes.

Do they react to music; Yes.

Do they understand music; No.

We're talking about pets, not My Chemical Romance fans.

hurr durr

That cat keeps going back to playing B throughout the video and towards the end is even seen to be snogging the B while playing D which means that cats can be controlled through the use of B minor :shock:

. If someone had come along and played an F# the cat would have seen that person as its master and who knows what could have happened then.

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