According to foreign media reports on November 14, as we all know, for us humans, everyone loves to play music and feel the physical and mental pleasure that music brings us. However, the latest research by researchers has found that animals are just like us. From fish to monkeys, they also like to play some music and enjoy life in time.

Experiments studying the physical and mental health growth of carps have shown that listening to music can make them healthier.

Sofronis Pabotsogoro, a professor at the Department of Applied Hydrobiology at the School of Agriculture in Athens, and his research team raised carps in a circulating water system in constant darkness and natural light. Then, classical music was played underwater to some of the carp.

They found that a dark environment hindered the growth of carp, but when the carp listened to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nacht Musik" for half an hour or more, even the carp with limited light could grow beyond the normal rate. grow.

The researchers also concluded that listening to classical music increased carp liver fatty acid levels and reduced levels of stress-related neurotransmitters. They plan to publish their research results in the January 2007 issue of the journal Hydroponic Engineering. This study suggests that music could one day be used to improve the welfare of fish in intensive fish farms.

Many scientists believe that music appreciation is a unique ability of humans, and language is also the most important skill of humans. Music is very connected to language. However, these new findings challenge this concept. For example, in whale experiments, researchers found that music and language are related. It was recently determined that the songs of humpback whales have surprising principles of human speech.

Li Ji Suzhouke of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues found that both humans and whales communicate through discrete sound units and hierarchically structure the sound units. arrangement. While humans use this structure in their language, whales communicate with each other through sound.

Fitch, a psychologist at the University of St. Edwards in the United States, agrees that there is overlap in the basic concepts of music, including animal songs and human language. But he believes that sounds in nature are more structured and convey less meaning.