Posted on 08/27/2014 8:26:35 AM PDT by John S Mosby
Eleanor Bartsch was performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, during which she played Bach’s Concerto in D Minor.
During the performance, she noticed two elephants outside a tent at the back of the Circus World Museum, who seemed to be reacting to the music.
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Direct youtube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFaelwEaL4
What a joy to see that!
Wisconsin’s Circus World elephants “dance” to the music of a violin.
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Shows that elephants have good taste.
Now play them some gansta rap, and prepare to be attacked.
If you are ever near Baraboo Ws, Circus World is worth a visit.
Elephant intelligence is pretty extraordinary. When they can, they form tight social and emotional bonds, which, after separation for decades and they are reunited, have very intimate reunions that last for days, during which humans avoid them except very judiciously, in that they fear being separated again.
I also remember a “behind the scenes” video shoot for an American singing star, in which a younger elephant was to be standing in the shallow ocean waves next to a beach, in the background. But that elephant had never been to the beach, and went “frolicking” in the water like a happy large dog, having a blast. They had to wait most of an hour for it to settle down enough to do the shoot.
Hopefully, researchers will follow up this violin discovery by giving elephants a library of music to choose from.
YES-I LOVE elephants!!
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The one on the left had much better rhythm.
Very cool.
Sounds like you may be interested.
I love elephants.
But I hope we don’t find out that the beasts really did not like the music and were just trying to indicate their displeasure. After all, the frequencies at which elephants communicate all all very low, so maybe high freqs are disturbing to them. Just a thought.
Yes, it was a joy to see that. But then I thought of all the elephants being slaughtered by mindless savages for their ivory. These highly intelligent animals are being shot, poisoned, and stabbed for the ivory they bear. And for what? To make trinkets. What a terrible shame, what an outrage that these noble and intelligent animals meet such an end for so little reason. The Chinese strike again to endanger a species!
Baby Elephant Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKDb99JYeM
After kittehs, I love elephants. Very majestic creatures.
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