Scientific process reveals important new fact: Rats know how to dance
Scientists from the University Of Tokyo have found that rats, like humans, move their bodies to music
Though we’ve understood that rats love music ever since the Pied Piper Of Hamelin assembled a legendary conga line out of the little rodents in a centuries-old fairy tale, science has gone ahead and done folk knowledge one better. Rats, it turns out, are also natural dancers.
An ABC News article explains that University Of Tokyo researchers have determined that moving along to a music’s rhythm, which was “an ability previously thought to be uniquely human,” is also shared by rats. In a study led by Dr. Hirokazu Takahashi, 10 rats were “fitted with wireless accelerometers to measure their head movements” and played music ranging from Mozart’s “Sonata For Two Pianos In D Major” (K.448) to “Another One Bites The Dust” by Queen, “Beat It” by Michael Jackson, “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga, and, in an unnecessarily inhumane move, Maroon 5's “Sugar.”