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This is not music, but machine noise. And the animal moves in a rhythm unrelated to said noise. So I'd guess it's a sign of stress.
by summm 7y ago
This is not music, but machine noise. And the animal moves in a rhythm unrelated to said noise. So I'd guess it's a sign of stress.
- a3n 7y agoI had the same thought. If I was subject to that noise for long enough I'd be rocking back and forth too. But, maybe that's not a sign of stress in chimps.
- pmoriarty 7y agoThere is a genre of music called "noise", which is much like what the term sounds like. I remember coming home from a noise concert with a friend one day, and going down in to the subway, where there was a construction worker hammering away with a jackhammer. My friend and I found ourselves really enjoying it, and appreciatively nodded our heads to the beat. Lots of experimental and avant garde music is also frequently described as "noise" to people who aren't fans of it. Back at the dawn of the rock-and-roll genre and of jazz, people to whom these were new types of music also frequently characterized them as "just noise". I've heard the "that's not music" accusation being thrown at heavy metal and dissonant traditional Japanese music. That's not to say that chimpanzees must be fans of what was played to them, but the realm of music is much wider than most people that listen only to mainstream music appreciate.
- mc32 7y agoI don't think that is a fair comparison/conclusion because you could also then argue that torture is pleasurable because we can find some people who feel that (at least a subset of torture) is pleasurable to them and therefore people who feel that torture is torture should learn to enjoy it as pleasure.
- nsomaru 7y agoI think this points to the conclusion that you can literally enjoy anything if you contact it repeatedly with the right attitude.