{"id":22497,"date":"2025-05-01T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ronan-the-sea-lion-is-probably-better-than-you-at-keeping-a-beat\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:10:11","slug":"ronan-the-sea-lion-is-probably-better-than-you-at-keeping-a-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ronan-the-sea-lion-is-probably-better-than-you-at-keeping-a-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronan the Sea Lion Is Probably Better Than You at Keeping a Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This is Ronan. She\u2019s a California sea lion and she probably has better rhythm than you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists earlier showed that Ronan, a resident of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the first nonhuman mammal who could be trained <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/2013-11008-001\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to keep a beat<\/a>, including moving in time with music. That was in 2013 when Ronan was young. Researchers recently decided to test the 15-year-old sea lion\u2019s skills again and showed that not only had she improved her ability to bob her head in sync with beats, but she is even better than most humans at doing so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that it demonstrates conclusively that humans are not the only mammals able to keep a beat,\u201d said Tecumseh Fitch, a cognitive biologist who studies biomusicology at the University of Vienna and wasn\u2019t involved in the new study, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-95279-1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">which was published Thursday<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982209008902\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Parrots<\/a> are known to be able to keep a beat by moving their bodies. And recent studies have highlighted the beat-keeping capabilities of other mammals, such as monkeys and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abo7019\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rats<\/a>. But after more than a decade, \u201cRonan the sea lion\u2019s rhythmic entrainment is clearly the best known in nonhuman vertebrates,\u201d Dr. Fitch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers trained Ronan for a few months, focusing on enhancing her precision with the old tempos on which she was trained in the past. Then, they looked at how good Ronan was at keeping a beat compared with when she was 3 years old \u2014 showing that she improved her skills as she matured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, the team tested Ronan\u2019s ability to move her head in time with tempos of 112, 120 and 128 beats per minute and compared it with the ability of 10 people aged 18 to 23 to move their arm in time with those same tempos. \u201cThe hand is like the sea lion\u2019s head, and the arm is like the sea lion\u2019s neck, and it\u2019s about the same size, so they can move through the same amount of space and do the task,\u201d said Peter Cook, a cognitive neuroscientist with a specialization in marine mammals at New College of Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In every parameter that Dr. Cook and his colleagues tested, Ronan was head of the class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere was no human that was better than Ronan on every measure of precision and consistency,\u201d says Dr. Cook. \u201cAnd she was better than most humans on all measures, so she really rose to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Back in 2013, Ronan\u2019s headbanging ability sparked a scientific debate over whether what she was doing could really be compared with human\u2019s rhythmic skills, and whether this behavior might be widespread in the animal world or restricted to species capable of learning complex vocalizations by hearing them. That includes humans and parrots, which are able to spontaneously keep a beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat Ronan is doing, I would say, really looks indistinguishable from what humans were pretty good at doing,\u201d Dr. Cook said. He also believes that the new data on Ronan\u2019s ability further challenges the idea that the ability to move in time with a rhythm is unique to vocal learners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other scientists disagree with this conclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Aniruddh D. Patel, a cognitive neuroscientist at Tufts University, said he was sticking with the hypothesis that such ability to move in time to music spontaneously is unique only to certain species that can learn complex vocalizations naturally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He says further studies should investigate the vocal learning abilities of sea lions, which would confirm the hypothesis. Even so, he points out that \u201ca very important difference\u201d is that Ronan learned to keep a beat with training, which humans and parrots don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a next step, Dr. Cook and his colleagues plan to investigate whether Ronan can move in time with beats that are more unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCan she do things that accelerate or decelerate? Can she do patterns that aren\u2019t even steady in time but change?\u201d Dr. Cook said. \u201cThese are things humans can be quite good at. 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