Consiciousness. I know its in vouge to pretend animals are all reasoning creatures, but alas the world is, thankfully, not disney. Our ability to relate 'Now',

Consiciousness. I know its in vouge to pretend animals are all reasoning creatures, but alas the world is, thankfully, not disney. Our ability to relate 'Now', with our perception of stimulus moments ago, is how we percieve music. This is mostly absent in animals, or has a vastly different temporal range. Even pure tones are just cycles per second. That said, if you ignore the meter, most animals seem to react to various harmonic and aharmonic sounds. Dogs howling, birds whistling, etc. The timings seem quite specific to the creature, and their adapted envirnment.