<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 2, 2021, at 12:58 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know this one thing: chickens won't lay as many eggs to rock as they will to Mozart. Draw your own conclusions. I can't imagine getting grant money to study this. M</span></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Well, my guess would be there would be a ready source of funding studies of this by the poultry industry. And that’s exactly what’s happened:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.canadianpoultrymag.com/musical-barns-have-pay-offs-17249/">https://www.canadianpoultrymag.com/musical-barns-have-pay-offs-17249/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In fact, Bristol seems to have much invested in studying chickens:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.bristol.ac.uk/vet-school/research/ciel/news/poultry-news/">http://www.bristol.ac.uk/vet-school/research/ciel/news/poultry-news/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Add to this, it seems like this would a relatively easy and cheap thing to study: chickens are easy to breed, raise and monitor, and they have relatively short life spans (compared to researchers). This is unlike studying, say, chimps or dolphins. (There are, of course, ethical concerns, but that’s another discussion.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dan</div></body></html>