Fish Listen to Music, Prefer Bach

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Goldfish not only listen to music, but they also can distinguish one composer from another, a new study finds.

The paper adds to the growing body of evidence that many different animals understand music.

Lead author Kazutaka Shinozuka of Keio University’s Department of Psychology told Discovery News that “goldfish could detect complex properties of sounds, such as pitch and timbre.”

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http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/fish-listen-to-music-130902.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

[dipsydoodle]

1. I'd have thought they'd have preferred

Mind you Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor does take a bit of beating.

[sakabatou]

2. Well this should do it for the fish