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Beasty beats: The origins of musicality (Ep 76)
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Beasty beats: The origins of musicality (Ep 76)

Do animals dance to the beat? When is birdsong music for a bird? Humans hear music in everything, but what about other species?

On this episode we talk with Henkjan Honing, professor of music cognition at the University of Amsterdam, about the biology of musicality. Among diverse species, he and his collaborators now study how and why some animals percei…

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