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Monkeys at Barry White’s Rhythm: Macacos Show that They Can Follow the Record of Music · Global Voices

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Making music, and enjoying it, seems like an eminently human activity. We sang, played instruments, danced, applauded, moved our heads and set the rhythm with our feet almost instinctively when we listened to a song that we like. The scientific community has debated for almost a hundred years, when Charles Darwin put it, whether this ability is exclusively ours or if other animals also own it. Now, a team of researchers from the National Autonom…

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Macaques have a sense of rhythm. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico after an experimental study in which they successfully taught two of these monkeys to tap out the beat of several songs. As training material, the monkeys were given hits like "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys and "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" by Barry White. They had previously gained experience with a m…

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Making music, and enjoying it, seems like an eminently human activity. We sang, played instruments, danced, applauded, moved our heads and set the rhythm with our feet almost instinctively when we listened to a song that we like. The scientific community has debated for almost a hundred years, when Charles Darwin put it, whether this ability is exclusively ours or if other animals also own it. Now, a team of researchers from the National Autonom…

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People can perceive the rhythm of a music and move in a beat. However, this ability is not limited to humans and other animal species with speech talent, as researchers have now found out surprisingly. Therefore, macaques can also clap to a beat, provided they have been trained rhythmically beforehand. This realization suggests that the roots of the [...] The post Macaques can also develop rhythm feeling appeared first on wissenschaft.de.

MEXICO CITY (ANP) – Macaques have a sense of rhythm. This is the conclusion of scientists from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, after an experimental study in which they successfully taught two of these monkeys to tap out the beat of several songs. As training material, the monkeys were given hits like "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys and "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" by Barry White. They had previously gained experi…

·Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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El Pais broke the news in Spain on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
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