Originally Posted by Mike Thorpe

It's a project we're researching at work - getting the DNA codes of various animals, and using a program to translate it into music.

So far we've done the leopard, the eel and the water buffalo.

(Although the leopard and eel don't sound anywhere near coherent, the buffalo makes a sound not unlike Cream-era Clapton)

Originally Posted by Marc Peters

This was used as a joke in a Douglas Adams book. But the "animal" was a swan and the DNA was it's wing beat. So nothing like it really.