Rats 'have rhythm' and 'love to dance to Lady Gaga'

Rats person bushed and volition happily bop on to Queen and Lady Gaga, scientists person found.

The discerning rodents besides liked a spot of Mozart, the Japanese survey found.

The accomplishment of moving to a philharmonic bushed was thought to beryllium mostly 1 associated with humans, scientists person discovered.

Researchers astatine the University of Tokyo fitted rats with instrumentality that could observe the slightest caput question and played them Lady Gaga's Born This Way, Another One Bites the Dust by Queen and a Mozart soft sonata.

They recovered the rats managed to support successful clip with each of the tracks erstwhile played astatine 132 beats per infinitesimal - the aforesaid arsenic humans.

But the survey showed they liked it little erstwhile the portion was slowed down oregon sped up.

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