Commentary: Cats prefer species-appropriate music

Whe the rorno to ther animal species can appreciate human musicisan issue that intrigues thinkers, scientists andartists(aswel la spe towners).Yet,todate,despiteara ther conspicuous corpus of studies using different investigating strategies with different animal species,no univocal answer does exist.There is contrasting evidence on the effects of music listening on animals’physiology and behavior [for are view Alworthand Buerkle(2013)] and ambiguous results on their appreciation of musical genres.To animals’ears,sometimes silence appear sto be more pleasur able than human music (McDermottandHauser,2007;Mingleetal.,2014).