This week’s edition of the internet saw a trending story about a Japanese island where cats outnumbered humans 6-to-1 which must have been seen by some business-savvy scientists who have developed music just for cats.
Nope, this ain’t a joke, researchers (aka, a group of feline-fanatics) at the University of Wisconsin have been working to see if cats are capable of liking music, to which they apparently are as a published study from Applied Animal Behaviour Science (via FACT) reports.
The studying group hypothesised “in order for music to be effective with other species, it must be in the frequency range and with similar tempos to those used in natural communication by each species” and with this, the researchers worked alongside a composer to create music that could potentially be enjoyed by cats, resulting in a fast-tempo’d ambient sound that’s sprinkled with squeaks, bleets and other random noises that you make to your cat when nobody else is home.
We admit, this sounds a little trashy, but the study showed interesting results and that despite cats not responding to “human music”, they rubbed their faces onto the speakers whenever the designer “cat music” was played. So that’s why your puss gives a vacant stare when you play Cat Stevens’ Greatest Hits and doesn’t bang their head when you spin Pussy Riot.
Avid cat YouTuber user Cole and Marmalade tested the new genre of sounds on his two cats, to which they seem pretty chilled, about the same reaction we had when we first listened to the tunes.
You can hear more kitty-created music right here, we wonder what the first cat-ambient record will be called, too bad the likes of Pet Sounds is already taken (had to, sorry).
