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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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rescued chimpanzee named Missy eats watermelon during a daily bushwalk at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre (CCC) on November ...

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 ...

Ronan the California sea lion sits in front of a pool at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory. Colleen Reichmuth; NOAA / NMFS 23554 In 2013, a California sea lion named Ronan shot to fame when her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...