‘Beat-keeping sea lion’ Ronan picks up YouTube hits
World BusinessApr 2, 2013
A video of a sea lion bobbing her head to music is garnering a lot of attention on YouTube.In the two-minute video posted on Sunday, Ronan the sea lion appeared on camera and started to bounce her head to the song “Boogie Wonderland” and “Everybody.” “When we first trained Ronan, we used simple repeating sound, something like a metronome. When she learned without further training, she was able to find and keep the beat in complex stimuli including music,” Peter Cook, a researcher at the Universi