* Fish able to distinguish composers around three quarters
of the time
* They even developed personal tastes, claims study by
Japanese team
Goldfish may be forgetful, but when it comes to classical
music, it seems they know what they like.
They can distinguish between a piece by 18th century German
composer Johann Sebastian Bach and one by 20th century Russian Igor Stravinsky,
a study found.
Japanese researchers played goldfish Bach’s Toccata and
Fugue in D Minor and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. They trained four of them to
bite a red bead on hearing one piece, but not the other.