Animals Like Listening to a Certain Kind of Music    [30-03-2012] As much as pet owners love their pets, they cannot constantly be with them 24 hours a day. Many times, pets are left home alone with no one to play with. This has led to many people leaving their television or radios on throughout the day for dogs and cats. This is because pet owners want their beloved pets to listen to music in hopes that it would please and relax them. Before, scientists thought that only humans enjoyed listening to music. However, ongoing research proved that animals actually enjoy music, too! But, what kind of music? “People assume that if they like Mozart, their dog will also like Mozart. If they like rock music, they say their dog prefers rock,” said Charles Snowdon, an animal psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He found that animals actually like a certain kind of music with tunes specially designed using the pitches, tones, and tempos that are familiar to a particular species. To animals, music that humans listen to is unrecognizable and harsh to their ears. However, some large dogs have vocal ranges that are very similar to those of adult male humans. “So, it is possible that they might like the music we enjoy. I think a big dog might be more responsive to human music than a smaller dog such as a Chihuahua,” said Snowdon.     출처: 어린이 영자신문 키즈타임즈 (www.kidstimes.net)