Abstract
Commentary: Cats prefer species-appropriate music.
Highlights
To animals’ ears, sometimes silence appears to be more pleasurable than human music (McDermott and Hauser, 2007; Mingle et al, 2014)
The initial question can be reduced to a more substantial one: Why should non-human animals respond to human music? With this query in mind, Snowdon and colleagues composed ad hoc music to elicit congruent emotions in cats (Snowdon et al, 2015) and, previously, in cotton-top tamarins (Snowdon and Teie, 2010)
A musical feat such as consonance, together with other basic components and related acoustic mechanisms to appreciate them, could complement well-known mechanisms absolving the same purpose in a different sensorial modality: the visual domain
Summary
Cats prefer species-appropriate music by Snowdon, C. Whether or not other animal species can appreciate human music is an issue that intrigues thinkers, scientists and artists (as well as pet owners). With this query in mind, Snowdon and colleagues composed ad hoc music to elicit congruent emotions in cats (Snowdon et al, 2015) and, previously, in cotton-top tamarins (Snowdon and Teie, 2010).
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