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Bopping Sea Lion Can Keep a Beat Better Than Many Humans
For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea ...
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Ronan the Sea Lion Can Keep a Beat Better Than You Can — and She Might Just Change What We Know About Music and the Brain
At the Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz, California, a 16-year-old sea lion named Ronan loves to put on a show. With her ...
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Rhythmically trained sea lion returns for an encore—and performs as well as humans
Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of ...
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Sea Lion Debunks Theory That Rhythm Is Uniquely Human
A sea lion named Ronan matched or outperformed humans in a rhythm test, showing better consistency and synchronization to ...
A California sea lion can keep a beat as well as humans — if not better
A California sea lion named Ronan became an internet star when a video of her bobbing her head in sync to the Backstreet Boys ...
Scientists once thought only humans could bob to music. Ronan the sea lion helped prove them wrong
Researchers say Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. Ronan burst to fame about a decade ago after ...
Columbia River anglers battle growing sea lion invasion: 'The devastation'
It might be easier to trap and remove sea lions in Oregon, but it's a different story in Washington state because they can ...
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Sea lion attacks surge at B.C. fish farms, prompting requests for rubber bullets
Elsewhere off B.C.’s coast, Sandberg told colleagues this has been the “worst sea lion season to date” at a fish farm in Clayoquot Sound’s Fortune Channel. Staff have spent much of their ...
This sea lion can keep a beat better than some humans
Ronan was slightly more variable beat to beat than adult humans. She also tended to hit ahead of the beat when listening to ...