Your tax dollars at work…researchers at the University of the Obvious, er, Wisconsin, played soothing music to a group of cotton-top tamarins and observed that they appeared to be calm and relaxed, and that jarring music seemed to have the opposite effect.
They conclude by saying that ‘further studies are necessary’. You can listen to their monkey music here.
Affective responses in tamarins elicited by species-specific music – Biology Letters, August 12 2009
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They should have taught the monkeys ballroom dancing…I wouldn’t mind my tax money going for that!
Good to know, especially if we ever find ourselves in a “Planet of the Apes”-type situation and need to calm down a lot of monkeys real fast.