{"id":40483,"date":"2025-05-02T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/sea-lion-who-grooves-to-boogie-wonderland-proves-animals-can-keep-a-beat-video\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:20:29","slug":"sea-lion-who-grooves-to-boogie-wonderland-proves-animals-can-keep-a-beat-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/sea-lion-who-grooves-to-boogie-wonderland-proves-animals-can-keep-a-beat-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea lion who grooves to Boogie Wonderland proves animals can keep a beat \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica, but the 15-year-old California sea lion\u2019s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits such as Boogie Wonderland. <\/p>\n<p>Not many animals show a clear ability to identify and move to a beat aside from humans, parrots and some primates. But then there\u2019s Ronan, a bright-eyed sea lion that has scientists rethinking the meaning of music. <\/p>\n<p>A former rescue sea lion, Ronan burst to fame about a decade ago after scientists reported her musical skills. From age three, she has been a resident at the University of California, Santa Cruz\u2019s Long Marine Laboratory<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/02\/ronan-musical-sea-lion\">Ronan the head-bobbing sea lion proves animals can keep a beat: \u2018No human was better\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/video\/2025\/may\/02\/sea-lion-grooves-boogie-wonderland-animals-keep-beat-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica, but the 15-year-old California sea lion\u2019s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits such as Boogie Wonderland. Not many animals show a clear ability to identify and move to a beat aside from humans, &#8230; <a title=\"Sea lion who grooves to Boogie Wonderland proves animals can keep a beat \u2013\u00a0video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/sea-lion-who-grooves-to-boogie-wonderland-proves-animals-can-keep-a-beat-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Sea lion who grooves to Boogie Wonderland proves animals can keep a beat \u2013\u00a0video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}