It's understandable that as we all know, everyone likes to play music and feel the physical and mental pleasure it brings us. However, the latest research by researchers found that animals are just like us, from fish to monkeys, they also like to play some music and enjoy life in time.
Experiments on the healthy growth of carp show that listening to music can make them healthier.
Sofroni Papot Sogoro, a professor in the Department of Applied Aquatic Biology of Athens Agricultural College, and his research team raised carp in a circulating water system under persistent darkness and natural light. Then, play classical music for some of the carp underwater.
they found that the dark environment hindered the growth of carp, but when carp listened to Mozart's Eine Kleine Nacht Musik for half an hour or more, even carp with limited light could grow beyond the normal rate.
The researchers also concluded that listening to classical music can improve the fatty acid level of carp liver and reduce the stress-related neurotransmitter level. They are going to publish their research results in the January 27 issue of Hydroponics Engineering. This study shows that music can be used to improve the "welfare" of fish in centralized fish farms in the future.
Many scientists believe that music appreciation is our unique ability, and language is also our most important skill. Music is closely related to language. However, these new discoveries make this concept face challenges. For example, in the whale experiment, researchers found that music and language are interrelated. Recently, it has been recognized that the singing of humpback whales has amazing human language principles.
Liji Sukuk of howard hughes Medical College of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues found that humans and whales communicate through discontinuous sound units, and the sound units are arranged hierarchically. When humans use this structure in their language, whales communicate with each other through sound.
Fitch, a psychologist at St. Edruz University in the United States, agrees that the basic concepts of music overlap, including animal songs and human language. But he believes that sounds in nature are more structured and express less meaning.