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Created By PinnipedLab • Updated March 23, 2023

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Beat Keeping in a California Sea Lion (Ronan)

Origin Entry: Animals
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One of our resident sea lions, Ronan, is the first non-human mammal shown able to find and keep the beat with musical stimuli. This challenges earlier evidence from humans and parrots suggesting that complex vocal mimicry is a necessary precondition for flexible rhythmic entrainment.

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