Monkeys can tap to beat of human music, researchers find

Isochronicity is strikingly rare in the animal kingdom. REPRESENTATION PIC/ISTOCK

Researchers have found that macaques can tap along to a musical beat. The team said that outside of humans, the ability to synchronize movement to rhythm - isochronicity - is rare in animals.

It also revealed that this behavior was observed even when the monkeys were presented with a song they had not yet heard before and when they were no longer rewarded for tapping to the beat. The findings suggest that beat perception may span a broader evolutionary continuum than previously believed.

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