Chimps Born to Appreciate Music

[Ursa major]

Chimpanzees are biologically programmed to appreciate pleasant music.

The discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music.

That suggests the apes are born with an innate appreciation of pleasant sounds, say scientists in the journal Primates.

Until now, this was thought to be a universal human trait, but the new finding suggests it evolved in the ancestors of humans and modern apes.

BBC - Earth News - Chimps born to appreciate music




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EDIT: I've just seen the link name. Does the BBC have a Mars or Moon News service?

 

[Allegra]

Interesting. Sure appreciation of music isn't only a human trait. Birds had it long before great apes! Human learned a lot from birds. Now here is one making a mockery of human music:

YouTube - Parrot singing opera