Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — No Musical Sense in ???. [ARTICLE]

No Musical Sense in ???.

Aa interesting report regarding th. le' olopnwnt of the musical sens* it horses halt just been made by a com suttee of German zoologists and botaa lets. The report eayst “TL* tnvesligation* as to the musical sense of horses have shown that that sense 1* eery peorly developed in anlMala It has been proved beyond iOubt that horses have no notfo r whatever of keeping time to music and that at circuses they do not dance &■ Sevding to the tune, but that the mu* •fans have to keep time according u the steps of (he animals. Other inve? ligations shew that hones de not on Aerstand military trumpet signals. It to only the rider or the animal’s Instinct of imitation which induces horse* 'z make the move* enquired by the etg Ml, but no hone without a rider, how over carefully trained, takes the slight •st notine es a trumpet signal and tb* same observation has been made o» * large aufpber of cavalry horse* without niters.”