SEA LION Keeps The Best Beat, or NOT Just 'Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay'

by Tony Fischer Photography cc

I just remembered that old OTIS REDDING tune, you know..ah, from AmericanAirlinesRule, thanks 'Sitting At The Dock Of The Bay' 1967 [by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, released by STAR RECORDS in 1968] after seeing this SEA LION do her thing at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, at SANTA CRUZ. This sea lion's name is RONAN. She was taught to keep the beat, and once she understood what everybody wanted she just took off...and now gets lots gigs just everywhere....just kidding about the gigs. Ronan does do a good job keeping the beat, just listen...nice dancing too. Hope she's not working for peanuts...ah, but, fish and lots of it. That's my girl, Ronan. Jan
Found this video on YOUTUBE, from PinnipedLab, called BEAT KEEPING IN A CALIFORNIA SEA LION, RONAN. This is more of what it says on the video page..."Published on Mar 31, 2013 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."

More related videos below.

1.] SITTING AT THE DOCK OF THE BAY...Otis Redding,   from AmericanAirlinesRule

2.] SEA LION LEARNS TO KEEP A DISCO BEAT, from CBSNewsOnline
3.] GOLDEN SEA- MERCY LAND-SEA LION, from Tim O'Driscoll...singers are called Sea Lions, from Sweden, enjoyed this
4.] SEA LIONS, FULL SHOW, SEAWORLD SAN DIEGO, from sharpproductions