Fish were discovered to make sounds more than 2,000 years ago, but they have gone largely unheard by humans. While a typical, ...

He's the cutest criminal on the farm!

The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.

Many owners now use playlists to soothe their dogs or cats. But can music really help animals relax? "Special animal" ...

You can find many different music playlists for dogs and cats online. Do they actually help animals relax? When Serenity Strull, a photo editor at the BBC, rescued her dog Margot, she knew right away ...

The Beatles wrote many different types of songs throughout their careers. They wrote simple love songs at the beginning and, at the end, some deliberately nonsensical ones. Mixed in with those Beatles ...

Many scientists believe at least some animals can have problems that are similar to human mental health disorders. We can’t ask them how they feel, so we look for changes in behaviour, body chemistry, ...

Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings—for instance, squirrels ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

IT SOUNDS LIKE a typical country tune, for a few seconds at least. “Country Girls Make Do” opens with a toe-tapping beat and twangy strains of fiddles and guitar. You expect a song about whisky or ...

A good song will stick around for a few months to a year. A great song will last forever. That’s because great songs are crafted in such a way that they allow the vocals of those singing to shine ...

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