the effects of amusic on animals, what are they?

Question

I'm trying to find research for my science fair project and i need help.
Any informatin would be great
THe projects on how music effects animals (mostley house pets)
Wild animals are fine too
It has to be five pages long and i'm writing three pages on house pets and two pages on wild animals
please help

Answer 1

I'll tell you my experiences.
I've had dogs, cats, various rodents, lizards, and some birds.
The only ones that showed any reaction to music were the cockatiels and the parakeets (budgies). Mine seem to enjoy instrumental classical music especially. They will make sounds attempting to imitate sounds they hear during the music. It's cute and funny, to hear a bird making a violin sound, a trumpet sound, trying to go along with the music.
My friend's parakeet had a favorite song. It was a Salvadoran folk song. Whenever they played it, the bird began to talk and say all the words and phrases he knew, interspersed with chirps and squeaks. When the song stopped, so did he.
Pet stores actually sell music tapes designed to encourage canaries to sing. It's kind of classical music supplemented with a lot of canaries singing. They say that if your (male) canary doesn't sing much, you can play this and the canary will want to join in. Once he's gotten used to singing, he will do it without the music.

Answer 2

Actually, there is not much research on this subject because there really is no way to measure any phenomenon.

For instance, when I was working at the aquarium, a person stopped by to ask if there is any research to determine what sort of music the dolphins like better. I very politely turned this question aside, because there is not way to ask a dolphin his preferences. Interspecies communication is practiced everyday, but there are certain concepts that you simply can't train because you can never be sure of what you are training for.

An example of this is what happened at the national aquarium when they were trying to teach an orangutan sign language. They tried to teach him the symbol for orange by presenting an orange and he would get it if he did the proper hand signal. Only problem is that what he seemed to learn is this hand signal meant "I want". He then performed the signal for orange to request things like being able to leave the enclosure or other food items. What it really taught researchers is that verbs are more easily grasped than nouns.

Answer 3

I was raised on a farm and my dad found that if he played music while milking the cows they behaved better and gave more milk so it must have a calming effect......do remember that that would have been nice Country songs. Not any other music....dad didn't like anything else.

Rock Hard Rock etc has too many disturbing waves in it and excites animals.

Did you know that one of the ways to get rid of moles, gophers is to put a radio to Hard Rock and stick it in their tunnel..........they will run away..........of course you would have to check on the batteries now and then.

I personally have found that I can draw, woodburn, crafts a whole lot better if I have on light Christian music--no rock type.

Answer 4

depends on the animal.most cockatoos love music and will even dance to it.i have a dog that will dance to music.i never taught her steps or anything but i did dance around her a lot just because i like to dance.when i realized what she was doing all i have to do is put some jazzy music on and say lets dance and boy does she step it up.like any thing in life depends on intelligence and the way they are brought up.