(October 25, 2011 at 9:46 pm)Shell B Wrote: Music as defined by the all-knowing Google: The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
We can certainly say that animals have achieved this, Stat. They may not use instruments, but many animals -- other than humans -- have songs that demonstrate emotion. Even some frogs make music.
You are suggesting that an animal believes it is producing "beauty of form" when it makes sounds? How could you possibly know this?