Fish like music?
 

LoL, k, dumb question, but you know how they talk about plants needing to be talked to and exposing them to classical music and all that jazz...

Anyone talk to there fish or purposefully expose them to music :)

J

I think it's a good idea - there must be some rhythms in nature that they're missing out on. I don't think the hum of pumps quite replaces that... :mrgreen:

I'm not sure if Led Zeppelin is quite what you'd find in nature either :biggrin: And deffinitly not the Jaws theme :eek:

While obviously fish can hear (the research shows this) and become stressed by sounds (loud volumes), to say they have any ability to "enjoy" sounds is pretty far-fetched. The quality/quantity of "enjoyment" or "happiness" is difficult to quantify at all in any animal. If there is any benefit to pairing fish with music, I think it would be the potential of the aquarist to associate good music with tending to their aquarium and the associated increase in general wellbeing of the tank one could expect. So if there is any relationship between music and fish health, I would attribute it to this third factor. On the same topic, for what it's worth, I have sometimes heard in the past and repeated that only certain specific animals actually "enjoy" sex. I checked into this a while back and found that it's a myth, obviously we have no real way to test this. So if you were wondering whether it was just chimps or dolphins as well...

Wow, thanks Quinn for that intensely analytical and theoretically research- based response... :biggrin: Awesome!

I actually meant it kind of in a casual, curious way to approach the topic. But it's all good.

JT

Sorry, just trying to impress chicks. Have I mentioned I'm a psych dork?

Nah, it's totally kewl Quinn... I'm impressed... do you want to go into psychology or ?

JT

There's chicks here?!? :eek:

Yeah I'm probably going to do either what's called cognitive ergonomics/human factors, or industrial-organizational psychology, both completely unrelated to therapy/clinical psychology. I am gearing up for my undergraduate thesis, hopefully will wrap up the degree in the summer of 2006 and apply for grad school in Calgary or the US. Although I'm taking a class taught by a primatologist right now and am quite intrigued. Monkeys rock.

Alan, you never know. They're pretty sneaky.

Teevee said...
Maybe you should try again, sometimes the first time is quick, you might learn to "enjoy" it!

Dave