Have you ever played your favorite song for your dog or cat and wondered whether they actually enjoy it? Your pet may sit ...

Do animals enjoy music? Learn about the scientific research that explores whether animals have an appreciation for music and how music can affect their behavior and well-being. When leaving my ...

This story is adapted from Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction, by David George Haskell. I first held a violin in my late forties.

To experiment with “playing” the strands of a web like the vibrating strings of a musical instrument, scientists at MIT used the web of a tropical tent-web spider (Cyrtophora citricola). A rattlesnake ...