A Feeling For French Songs
(N.Z Press Assn. —Copyright i HAMBURG, May 16 Rats, according to Otte Nieshultz, a Hamburg pharmacologist, are musical snobs. They can’t stand marches. Beat music turns them off. Jazz? They won’t hear a bar of it But French chansons,
sung with feeling, send them into ecstasies, said Mr Nies- > hultz. Mr Nieshultz taught 10 rats . to cut off sounds unpleasant . to them by depressing a lever, i . A number of widely differing * musical selections were then i , played for the animals—un- i
less one of them depressed the lever. Beat music easily fared the worst. Only one rat listened to the record all the way through. Each of the others took an average of 14 seconds to make up its mind, Mr Nieshultz said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31061, 17 May 1966, Page 17
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