Accepted Manuscript Title: Cats Prefer Species-Appropriate Music Author: Charles T. Snowdon David Teie Megan Savage PII: DOI: Reference:
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Cats Prefer Species-Appropriate Music
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Running head: Cats prefer species-appropriate music
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Abstract Many studies have attempted to use music to influence the behavior of nonhuman animals;
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however, these studies have often led to conflicting outcomes. We have developed a theoretical
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framework that hypothesizes that in order for music to be effective with other species, it must be
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in the frequency range and with similar tempos to those used in natural communication by each
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species. We have used this framework to compose music that is species-appropriate for a few
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animal species. In this paper we created species-appropriate music for domestic cats and tested
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this music in comparison with music with similar affective content composed for humans. We
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presented two examples of cat music in counter-balanced order with two examples of human
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music and evaluated the behavior and response latencies of cats to each piece. Cats showed a
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significant preference for and interest in species-appropriate music compared with human music
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(Median (IQR) 1.5 (0.5-2.0) acts for cat music, 0.25 (0.0-0.5) acts for human music, P
