{"id":744578,"date":"2013-04-02T12:32:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223432"},"modified":"2013-04-02T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:32:58","slug":"sea-lion-bobs-her-head-to-backstreet-boys-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744578","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lion Bobs Her Head to Backstreet Boys [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan the sea lion knows how to keep a beat. Just turn on some disco or some late 90s Backstreet Boys, and she&#8217;ll nod her head and keep time. Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the University of California Santa Cruz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/PinnipedLab?feature=watch\">Pinniped Lab<\/a> had to say about Ronan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>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.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All I know is that she&#8217;s a much better dancer than I am.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6yS6qU_w3JQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=Fc7Bm6yYZyQ:2vzT70u_vnA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/Fc7Bm6yYZyQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronan the sea lion knows how to keep a beat. Just turn on some disco or some late 90s Backstreet Boys, and she&#8217;ll nod her head and keep time. Incredible. Here&#8217;s what the University of California Santa Cruz&#8217;s Pinniped Lab had to say about Ronan: One of our resident sea lions, Ronan, is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37Hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}