Newsflash! Cows Have Favorite Playlists Too!

Meera Dolasia
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:09:32 -0700

We all know that music has the power to comfort us when we are frazzled or distressed. Can it do the same for animals? In 2001, University of Leicester researchers decided to test this by exposing dairy cows to different genres of music. They discovered that certain types of music helped cows produce 3% more milk than those that only heard the jarring sounds of milking machines.