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Dolphins dig Radiohead, says trainer
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 4 October 2013
FACT: Dolphins like Radiohead. That is, they like Radiohead when they’re in captivity and have no other choice than to listen to Radiohead. And Enya. Or so Willow Withy, an (apparently real) ‘dolphin yoga’ trainer at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden And Dolphin Habitat in Las Vegas has said, via Radar Online.
Claiming that the dolphins “really resonate” with Radiohead’s ‘King Of Limbs’ single ‘Lotus Flower’, Withy adds: “As soon as I put it on, they come up to the window and their play patterns become more fluid, friendly, and they are curious about what is going on in the yoga room. They rub against the windows, walls, and express more sensory connection. It feels like mutually shared experience as they appreciate the yoga and music together. I would say they are happy”.
Stepping in with the ‘science bit’, the Wild Dolphin Foundation’s Tori Cullins interjects: “The percussive tunes seem to provoke the most interesting responses. It is common knowledge among our community that they like new-agey music like Enya. Rock music seems to stress them and jazz is the worst, while classical and country music has seen them relaxed”.
Hear that, Thom Yorke? You are not ‘rock’, you are ‘new agey’, like Enya.
