Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1889 — No Musical Sense in Horses. [ARTICLE]

No Musical Sense in Horses.

An interesting report regarding the development of the musical sense is horses has just been made by a comnittee of German zoologists and botau ist . The report say» : “The investigations as to the musical sense of horses have shown that that sense it eery poorly developed in these ani■nals. It has been proved beyond J ■ bt that horses have no notion whatever of keeping time to music and that at circuses they do not dance according to the tune, but that the musicians have to keep time according to the steps of the animals. Other investigations show that horses do not tin derstand military trumpet signals. It is only the Hder or the animal’s instinct of imitation Thlch induces horses to make the moves required by the signal, but no horse without a rider, how ever carefully trained, takes the slight est notice of a trumpet signal and the same observation has been made on a large number of cavalry horsaa without riders.”