major/minor discrimination in animals

Does anybody know, if there is an experimental study about the question if
dogs or other animals can discriminate between major and minor chords?

Reinhard Kopiez

[Reinhard Kopiez 184.20]
>Does anybody know, if there is an experimental study about the question if
>dogs or other animals can discriminate between major and minor chords?

Our cat gets agitated and jumps on the bass part of the piano keyboard
when I am playing and my wife sings the real high notes. I have not
noticed any tendency with regard to major or minor. She also jumps on
the keyboard when the door is shut and she wants to go to the toilet.

I changed back to digest so that I could do the right thing with message
numbers. That is why I am sending so many messages again - I have to
flush out the buffer at the server to find out what everyone else is
saying ;^} Ray

Our cat, Mogs, has a decided preference for Mozart, and leaves the
room when we play Birtwistle. She can tolerate most of the rest of
our taste, but is decidedly uncertain about Xenakis and some of the
other electoacoustics. She likes one of my pieces which had a lot of
high freqiency sounds -- unfortunately I did not and junked it.

On the other hand I have not noticed any consonance/dissonance
preferences; perhaps I will watch more carefully.

==John ff