We generally take news from the British press with a grain -- if not a full container -- of salt. But here's a harmless nugget that's not gonna get anyone in trouble, even if it was completely fabricated. According to www.Metro.co.uk, rambunctious teenage African elephants at West Midlands Safari Park in Bewdley, Worcestshire, England are being soothed by the sounds of hard rock and heavy metal.
Now, we've all heard the axiom music calms the savage beast, but we always assumed the music in question would be Beethoven or Mozart, not Black Sabbath and Metallica. Yet some zookeepers insist that what heavy animals really dig is heavy music. For the past decade, three elephants at the West Midlands zoo, Jack, Lataba and Five, had been played mellow tunes during their two hour long morning ritual. Then, for some unexplained reason, staffers decided to play the adolescent animals some serious rock, and when the music was shut off after they had breakfast and bathed, the three pachyderms threw "tantrums and started pacing."
Sabbath, Metallica, Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard seemed to have the most effect on the elephants. We strongly suggest Mastodon's Leviathan... they might be a bit too wigged out by Blood Mountain.
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