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Do animals actually like music — or are humans just projecting? In this episode of Howtown, we investigate the science of animals and music through experiments with cotton-top tamarins, orangutans, rats, mice, parrots, dogs, cats, and a wild fox who seemed captivated by a banjo.
We look at what animal behavior research, neuroscience, and music cognition can tell us about rhythm, pitch, melody, consonance, dissonance, emotion, reward, pattern recognition, and why human brains find music so powerful. Along the way, we explore studies on cotton-top tamarins preferring silence to human music, orangutans choosing silence over different music genres, rats conditioned to prefer Miles Davis, mice exposed to Beethoven during development, dogs howling along to favorite songs, and Snowball the cockatoo dancing to the beat.
Featuring conversations with researchers and musicians including Aniruddh Patel, Pralle Kriengwatana, David Teie, Suzanne MacDonald, and Andy Thorn, this episode asks: can animals hear music the way we do? Can they recognize rhythm or melody? Do they feel emotion from music? And what does animal music research reveal about the evolution of music in humans?

00:00 the song
00:56 the fox
02:09 what’s music?
02:56 pitch = rhythm
05:57 incogni
07:00 tamarins & taste
08:35 orangutans & opera
10:22 other species
11:11 rats & reward
12:38 parrots & patterns
13:46 complex vocal learning
15:55 shallow howl
17:24 melody
18:41 consonance v dissonance
20:09 mice & memory
22:27 more than a feeling
23:39 the cellist
25:46 composing the song
28:41 the monkey’s listen
30:26 good anthropomorphizing?