Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs

Scientists plan to test whether sharks enjoy listening to Christmas pop songs, after US research showed fish could recognize melody. Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal music would be played through walkthrough underwater tunnels where they can be heard by dozens of nurse sharks, black-tip reef sharks, and ray species. Experts will then monitor the sharks' reactions to different songs. We'll play everything from Kim Wilde and Mel Smith's Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade to Wham's Last Christmas. We may find they prefer something softer like White Christmas by Bing Crosby," Brown said. Thank you for answering this question science.

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Re:Good Work Guys!

[adnonsense]

Hey, that would be our tax *pounds*, thankyou very much!

Re:Torturing humans, ok but torturing sharks?

[Canazza]

"The songs and other festive hits will be played to the sharks and rays at Loch Lomond Sea Life Centre in Balloch, Dunbartonshire"

Loch Lomond is in Scotland ya muppet.

Re:What happened to Idle?

[Elrond, Duke of URL]

Oh, good God yes. When one out of twenty stories is of the Idle variety, a story which must either be clicked on to view or briefly skipped over on the index, then Slashdot is truly ruined. What person would want this monster now?

Really now, I just can't understand all the vitriol spewed over Idle. I honestly have found just a small amount of it musing, but its overall impact on Slashdot as a whole is minuscule. If you hate it so much, just ignore the damn thing! Or, stop being an AC and then you can filter it out of everything but the RSS feed.

As for the GP's point... silly as this is, I don't have a problem with it being outside of Idle. Before there was an Idle section, stories which were serious candidates for an Ignobel award would have been fair game on Slashdot. Why not now?