Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...

Are you planning a pilgrimage to visit the tallest trees in the world? The old-growth redwoods on the California coast are ...

Researchers say Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. Ronan burst to fame about a decade ago after ...

Not many animals show a clear ability to identify and move to a beat aside from humans, parrots and some primates. But then there’s Ronan, a bright-eyed sea lion that has scientists rethinking ...

For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea ...

Ronan was slightly more variable beat to beat than adult humans. She also tended to hit ahead of the beat when listening to ...

Parrots are known to be able to keep a beat by moving their bodies. And recent studies have highlighted the beat-keeping capabilities of other mammals, such as monkeys and rats. But after more than a ...

Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of biomusicality ...

Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing ...

Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of ...

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