In the chatroom, a joke became an interesting discussion as to whether music could influence certain behaviours/moods etc in different species? In particular, the discussion started with regards to 'romantic' music encouraging breeding.
From the off that sounds completely mental, but hear me out with just a couple of examples [I've heard of more, but cannot recall all of them]:
1) Not knowing any names here, but somebody on Caudata has mentioned that their newts have bred after s/he played Barry White music for them.
2) My bearded dragon Thorn seems to like the music of Loreena McKennitt and grows exceptionally relaxed when it is played. [Doesn't support helping breeding, but supports the behavioural influences].
So, do you think animals react to music? Obviously they likely don't understand the words, but does the tone/tempo/pitch etc influence certain behaviours and can 'romantic' music get animals in the mood so to speak [as in fairness, it can get humans in the mood, and we are just another example of a species]?
From the off that sounds completely mental, but hear me out with just a couple of examples [I've heard of more, but cannot recall all of them]:
1) Not knowing any names here, but somebody on Caudata has mentioned that their newts have bred after s/he played Barry White music for them.
2) My bearded dragon Thorn seems to like the music of Loreena McKennitt and grows exceptionally relaxed when it is played. [Doesn't support helping breeding, but supports the behavioural influences].
So, do you think animals react to music? Obviously they likely don't understand the words, but does the tone/tempo/pitch etc influence certain behaviours and can 'romantic' music get animals in the mood so to speak [as in fairness, it can get humans in the mood, and we are just another example of a species]?
