It’s always a good day when a piece of news includes music, cats and science all in one.
Scientists have been hard at work solving life’s major problems and answering our deepest, most important questions. Specifically, researchers at the University of Wisconsin have been busy creating music for cats.
The team created custom kitty music by laying beats that were within the same frequencies that felines use to communicate with each other. The tempo is also similar to the speed that cats purr.
47 different cats had this music played to them. Success included when cats rubbed up against the speakers while ‘cat music’ played, whereas they just stood around when ‘human music’ was played.
Here’s one example:
The full report can be found here, as written for journal Applied Animal Behavioral Science.
The main researcher heading up the project, David Teie, has put more examples on his website.
Look, I’m not so sure about all this. I played these for my cats and this is what happened:
To be fair, she did move a bit during one of them but I don’t think it had any relation to the music:
Maybe it would have been better if we’d used Deadmau5’s custom made headphones for cats.
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