A new study of Ronan, a sea lion famous for her dancing skills, challenges the idea that only vocal learners can match a ...

Ronan was slightly more variable beat to beat than adult humans. She also tended to hit ahead of the beat when listening to slower stimuli and behind the beat on the faster stimuli. By comparison, ...

Sea lion Ronan first made the news in 2013, when researchers revealed that she could bob her head to a beat. Twelve years later, Ronan still has rhythm.

The results challenge the long-held theory that "only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn to find a beat," Hugo Merchant, a researcher at Mexico 's Institute of ...

Ronan the sea lion has been tested on how accurately he can keep the beat of a song, showing more proficiency than 10 humans.

“Scientists once believed that only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn to find a beat,” said Hugo Merchant, a researcher at Mexico’s Institute of Neurobiology, who ...

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Info from Licensor: "He’s got fish on his mind. I was on a snorkeling boat in the Sea of Cortez and on our way back in we saw this sea lion having the time of his life. The ...

Chino the sea lion, who lived at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium and loved to show off his learned behaviors, had to be ...

The comments and reference to the yellowtail fleet underscore the hatred Southern California anglers often express toward sea lions, which can seem omnipresent at the fishing grounds. Sea lions are ...

( NewsNation) — A sea lion astonished wildlife officials after being found roughly 30 miles inland in Chile’s Torres del ...

Meet Ronan the sea lion, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, challenging our understanding ...

For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea lion from California has proven otherwise, with her outstanding ability to ...