Music is a sound that, depending on its frequency, intensity, pattern, and duration, can influence animal behaviour and productivity.
Birds respond to music by bobbing their heads and elevating their feet. After hearing adult songs, young songbirds learn to sing appropriately.
Radio music reduces baboon heart rates but produces aberrant behaviour in rhesus macaques. The influence of music varies according on animal species.
Music has been shown to increase socialisation in laboratory chimps. In terms of fostering friendly behaviour, classical music outperforms vocal music.
Classical music has a beneficial influence on stereotypy in Asian elephants kept in zoos, lowering aberrant behaviour.
Classical music calms kenneled dogs by lowering vocalisation and body shaking, whereas heavy metal music enhances them.
Domestic cats clearly preferred species-appropriate music over music made for humans.
Rats may not like human music because to their ultrasonic social communication, but listening to Mozart while on medicine lessens their anxiety.