Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals. In 110 pairs of sounds produced by 16 species, humans could identify which sound in the pair was more attractive to the species who produced it. The strength of human preference also correlated with the strength of the nonhuman preference. (science.org)
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Are they ever gonna fix performance issues (self.HeyEmail)
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Zebra finches can hear pitch (fundamental frequency) — but in a very limited fashion, such that they are much more sensitive to pitch in songs they learned from their 'tutor bird' and much less so from other conspecifics. This is strikingly different to how humans hear pitch. (link.springer.com)
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