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Do Animals Have Rhythm? Another Look at Musical Animals

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[embedplusvideo height=”390″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/2f5qIEn” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/RKcks_4uLmA?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=RKcks_4uLmA&width=640&height=390&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep3328″ /]   I’ve written on this subject before, the answer being that some animals really do dance in response to music (birds) and others are simply trained to go through the motions (dogs). Whenever I see a new example of musical intelligence in an animal, I’m inspired to […]

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Is Rhythm Innate?

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                Dancing in infancy, these babies demonstrate human rhythm as nature intended. [embedplusvideo height=”388″ width=”640″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/Ibg9gM” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/to7uIG8KYhg?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=to7uIG8KYhg&width=640&height=388&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5108″ /] I’ve blogged in the past about animals, like cockatoos, that have a real sense of rhythm, and inherent in that concept is the supposition that it is also […]

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Yet Another Dancing Animal

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Warning: another animal dance video.  If you don’t like to see people dancing with animals, skip this one.  This video did go viral, so you may have seen it already.  Some animals really do have a sense of rhythm and actually choose to dance when motivated by music, just like humans.  See https://www.stepsontoes.com/2013/04/319/.  Sometimes the […]

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