When it comes to melodious preferences , animals can often live up to their stereotype . Cows like their playlists calm and introspective – they ’re apparentlybig devotee of REM . corking white shark shake out toheavy metal(what else ? ) . And cats – well , true cat do n’t really careabout your pathetic human medicine at all .
And , evidently , elephants like authoritative . At least , the ones at Elephants World sanctuary in Thailand do – and that ’s thanks to player Paul Barton and his piano .
Using elephants for childbed is a exercise stretch back M of years in Asia , and in certain countries the animals havesimilar protective covering to human employees – maternity leave-taking , holidays , and a overnice retreat .
But in Thailand , several thousands of elephants weremade redundantin 1989 , when the government introduced a complete ban on log .
“ We wish the sound of … a retreat center for old , injured and disabled former logging and trek elephants , " Barton toldCBS News . " So we paid them a visit . I wondered if these old rescue elephant might like to listen to some slow classical music . ”
Barton has dozens of videos of the chancel ’s elderly and unreasoning elephant look to enjoy his music , each single-foot up thousands of sentiment online . One , “ Bach on Piano for Blind Elephant ” , has been see 1.5 million times .
While we ca n’t know for sure precisely what the polymath pachyderms are getting out of it , the idea that they love a bit of romanticistic paper is n’t that farfetched . Asmall learn from 2008suggested that exposing elephant to classic music helped reducestereotypy – the distressing , repetitive behavior seen when captive creature are traverse societal and environmental enrichment .
Records of elephants ’ spot taste in medicine stretchas far back as Roman times , but modern jumbos have acquire a more alive role in the music industry . Back in 2000 , six elephantsformed an orchestraand liberate a Polemonium van-bruntiae single , while Smithsonian resident Shanthi plays a mean harmonica .
Elephant artistes have shone outside the land of music too : painting by elephants have been sold at auction foras much as $ 25,000 , andin 2014and2015we were treated to the humanity ’s first elephant selfies .
All this is simply because elephant are notoriously smart : they cando math , they candisable electric fence , and they’reexistentially aware . Compared to all that , what ’s so surprising about indulging in a bit of Chopin ?
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