Humans aren’t the only animals known to move to a musical beat. For instance, parrots do it, too. And now rats have been observed bopping their heads in time with the music of Mozart, Lady Gaga, Queen ...

Even rats can keep a beat. Scientists have discovered that rats are able to perceive the beat of music and bop their heads along to the rhythm – an attribute previously thought to exist only in humans ...

A rat listens to a clip of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) as it is played through a speaker. VIDEO: ITO ET AL/BIO-INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS LAB/THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO When a good song ...

Study reveals that rats showed sensitivity to track harmonic and temporal patterns in music and such sensitivities might be shared across species Are humans the only ones who recognize musical ...

Blasting Lady Gaga in your house? There’s a chance a nearby rat might be bopping along with you, a new study suggests. Rats can recognize and move to the rhythm of a beat, according to a University of ...

The study found that the human particpants and rats jerked their heads in a similar rhythm as the songs played. China Photos via Getty Images Rats have a human-like sense of rhythm and can bop their ...

Rats can bop their heads to a rhythm as humans can, and like moving to music by Queen, Lady Gaga, and Mozart, scientists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Tokyo fitted 10 rats with ...