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 head bobbing in time to a percussive beat, she hits her marks not just with ...

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Tapping a toe to the beat is something people do unconsciously. Parrots and monkeys have even been known to have quite the knack for keeping rhythm. But there is an animal just as capable of not only ...

A 15-year-old sea lion named Ronan proved better at keeping a beat than 10 college students in a rhythmic dance-off, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. The results ...

A sea lion named Ronan is better able to keep a beat than the average human, a new study finds. Such ability in animals is generally thought to be unique to humans and some birds, but Ronan’s ...

Sea lion Ronan first made the news in 2013, when researchers revealed that Ronan had the unusual ability to bob her head to the beat. Twelve years later, Ronan still loves a good beat. A new study ...

This is Ronan. She’s a California sea lion, and she probably has better rhythm than you. Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ronan is a California sea lion who was rescued in 2009. In lab settings, other non-human animals have shown some ability to move ...

If you remember Snowball the cockatoo grooving to the Backstreet Boys in 2007, you might also recall Ronan, the Santa Cruz sea lion who made headlines in 2013 for bobbing her head to the beat of ...