WHEN it comes to keeping the beat, Ronan the seal has it signed and delivered.
In a study published in The Journal of Comparative Psychology , researchers declared they had accidentally found "the first non-human mammal to be able to keep a beat".
Ronan was being trained to follow a repetitive sound with her head.
But the swingin' seal surprised put his best flipper forward and shocked researchers with his groovin'.
Specifically, Ronan started boppin' to Boogie Wonderland, by Earth, and Everybody, by the Backstreet Boys.
"Once she had learned, without any further training, Ronan was able to find and keep the beat in complex stimuli, including music,' a researcher explained.
And don't accuse Ronan of being a simple mimic.
"These findings show that the capacity for entrainment of movement to rhythmic sounds does not depend on a capacity for vocal mimicry, and may be more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously hypothesized," researchers reported.
Ronin the seal surprised researchers by catching the beat and moving with the groove.
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