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Sea lion Ronan first made the news in 2013, when researchers revealed that she could bob her head to a beat. Twelve years ...
A sea lion named Ronan matched or outperformed humans in a rhythm test, showing better consistency and synchronization to ...
A new study of Ronan, a sea lion famous for her dancing skills, challenges the idea that only vocal learners can match a ...
Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of ...
A California sea lion named Ronan became an internet star when a video of her bobbing her head in sync to the Backstreet Boys ...
Ronan was slightly more variable beat to beat than adult humans. She also tended to hit ahead of the beat when listening to ...
Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old ...
For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea ...
Now, the highly trained California sea lion who achieved global fame for her ability to bob her head to a beat is finally ... By contrast, the blink of a human eye takes about 150 milliseconds.
A feel for the groove isn't restricted to humans, but it does seem pretty limited across the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees can ...