Elephants are highly intelligent, sensitive creatures who appear to share our fondness for music-listening.
The enormous creatures’ reactions to human-played music, including music from a grand piano, have been captured on video.
The video included below shows Allan McKenzie performing live for two Asian elephants from the ABQ Bio Park.Alan didgeridoo-played for the elephants and captured their responses to the music.
The elephants begin to trumpet in appreciation and move about to indicate their joy; perhaps this is an elephant’s version of dancing?
Australian artist Allan McKenzie, located in Dubbo, New South Wales, is also an Aboriginal advisor for Boomalli Consulting.
He is not the first person to perform music for these lovely creatures, though.Paul Barton, a British citizen, also learned that elephants enjoy listening to music.
Paul, a pianist from Yorkshire, performs for disabled and blind elephants in Thailand’s jungles after leaving the dales and music halls behind.
Paul performs Debussy’s Clair de Lune for an 80-year-old blind elephant in the video below. It will make you cry because it will touch your soul.
For the elephants, Paul frequently plays. He wants to bring peace and compassion to these lovely creatures, many of them have had difficult lives.
According to him, slow music may soothe agitated bull elephants and soothing music can ease blind elephants.
These intelligent creatures are such gentle giants who enjoy both classical music and other genres. Animals undoubtedly connect with music in a similar way to humans.