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Animals Find Comfort in Music
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ounting research reveals that animals not only respond physically and emotionally to
music, like us, they even have musical preferences! Happy, beautiful, harmo- nious music seems to help everyone, whatever our species. For instance, when poultry pro- ducers routinely played easy listen- ing music to their flocks, 96 percent of study participants reported that it calmed the chickens. Also, 52 percent noted that their chickens became less aggressive. No such results were found with heavy metal music. When 1,000 dairy cows in the United Kingdom tuned into classi- cal and easy listening music, such as Beethoven’s “Pastorale” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge over Troubled Waters”, farmers realized an overall in- crease in milk production. When these cows listened to songs like “Pumping on Your Stereo” by Supergrass, no such milk increase occurred. In The Man who Talks to Whales:
The Art of Interspecies Communica- tion, musician Jim Nollman tells how he’s played his guitar to whales through underwater speakers. Scales
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played in the key of D met with no response. But Nollman observed that when he played the same scales in the key of C sharp, he and an Orca settled upon a conversational form of dia- logue. Each would wait until the other had finished vocalizing before starting in again. Their conversation continued for more than an hour. How does this translate to the well-being of our beloved animal friends at home? A 2002 article pub- lished in the journal Animal Welfare states that dogs clearly spent more time in a relaxed state when they were exposed to classical music, as opposed to pop or rock. They not only rested more, but barked less. While research for the Songs to
Make Dogs Happy CD was being con- ducted, music producer Skip Haynes of the Laurel Canyon Animal Com- pany discovered that the dogs prefer Sambas. Haynes reports that “Sambas came out in the highest percent, with classical, Celtic and smooth jazz fol- lowing. What surprised us the most, however, was that the dogs understood lyrics. When our songs used the terms ‘You’re a good dog’, ‘Cookies’, ‘Food’
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