"Science" is becoming my favorite magazine. Just saw this letter of interest yesterday (Gess, A., Birds Like Music, Too. Science, 317: 1864 (2007). Apparently, although chimpanzees seem "unresponsive" to music, birds have been scientifically shown to prefer the works of Bach and Vivaldi over that of "dissonant" composers, or even silence! We much prefer piano, flute and violin to hip-hop, so we feel this is a very accurate and insightful letter.
Geoffrey
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