🐀 Study Shows Rats Prefer Jazz Music When On Drugs

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. Have you ever wondered what happens
if you give cocaine to rats? No Brenda question for you. No. Well,
if you have wondered, don't worry. I've got the answer
for you. They've done a study and what they've done
is they played music for rats, and they found that

(00:22):
when rats are sober, they have no musical preferences. They
like Actually they prefer silence. But if you give a
rat cocaine, it starts to love jazz kiddies, Oh something,
they've blown up a balloon. Where does jazz start and finish?

(00:46):
How's a band know when to finish? They all playing
different songs. I wouldn't even know. There can be like
Miles Davis is a great jazz musician, but most of
the jazz I just hear like that and it's horrendous.
So what's happened? My god? How do they give the
the rats the cocaine? Will they go into a toilet
nip off the back of the toilet, That's what they do.

(01:07):
So what happened is that what they discovered, so they
started to give the rats cocaine. Hey, guys, sign up
for this one. This is great.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm being shaved.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Down over here. I want that one. What about the
one that's getting my eyelashes put on? Great? So they
gave the rats cocaine, and they found that more and
more they like the sound of this, and that even
when they weren't being given cocaine, they still liked jazz.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Plant, which shows that environmental cues like music can influence
your drug experiences.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
That's what they're showing here. What I thought was interesting
is they had to play that to give them every
single drug known to humanity to make them tolerate this.
That old Yoka owner the gift that kids giving not
enough cocaine in Colombia. Ha oh easy, thank you, Okay,