So, what’s your DJ name?

If you live in a major city and have good music taste, you’ve more than likely DJ’d for an audience of appreciative rodents. At least according to a new peer-reviewed study published in Science Advances, which found rats instinctively bob their heads in time to music, an ability previously thought to be unique among humans.

🐀 Anyone can cook dance… In the experiment, the rodents’ head movements were monitored while they were listening to several pieces of music across different genres, including Mozart, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Maroon 5, and Queen.

• Twenty human subjects went through the same process – and per the researchers, both rodents and humans jerked their heads to the beat of songs in a similar rhythm.

✋ Yes, but: At least one outside expert criticized the study’s methodology, suggesting the rats’ head movements may have simply been their startled response to certain loud passages of music. The expert said a convincing follow-up would be if researchers studied whether the rats’ movements came a few milliseconds before the beats, similar to humans, or a few milliseconds after.