Do Animals feel rhythm?
Dozens of YouTube videos exist showing animals reacting to loud music in ways which their owners (or the people taking videos) describe as "dancing".
An important question is: do animals "feel the beat?" As humans, upon hearing a few seconds of a song, we begin to tap out feet or hands in tune with the beat, and can sustain this for some time. Animals, however, do not have the same expectations with music.
An interesting way to analyse this question would be to record the delay in response by animals to beats, and see if the response time decreased with exposure, which may indicate at least some semblance of pattern response.
An important question is: do animals "feel the beat?" As humans, upon hearing a few seconds of a song, we begin to tap out feet or hands in tune with the beat, and can sustain this for some time. Animals, however, do not have the same expectations with music.
An interesting way to analyse this question would be to record the delay in response by animals to beats, and see if the response time decreased with exposure, which may indicate at least some semblance of pattern response.
