Metallica Is Loved By Monkeys Too

American scientists have noted that monkeys are practically not accepting/perceiving human musical sounds. The only song which was able to create some sort of a reaction in them was Metallica’s “Of Wolf And Man”. Scientific article about this strange effect had appeared in the Current Biology magazine, and it’s short version may be seen on the Madison University’s website. Within the frames of this study scientists were learning about the behaviour of monkeys called Cottontop Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus). Scientists were making videos of fourteen different monkeys during five minutes, later they’ve played music for thirty seconds and compared their behaviour. This project had included a professional violencellist David Teie who had chosen various music tracks that may influence monkeys. Among played tracks are “Grudge” by Tool, “Fragile” by Nine Inch Nails, and “Adagio for Strings” by Michael Barber. Also, Teie had produced some music of his own, which presumably had to influence monkeys – or monkey music. Eventually, those tracks which were ‘happy’ made them behave in the calm way, ‘sad’ or ‘noisy’ music made them look more disturbed. On the other hand human music did not influence them at all except Metallica. While listening to the “Of Wolf and Man” monkeys look calm and happy, so Metallica with it’s lound music made a huge and positive effect on these creatures.

A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com