In addition to bobbing up and down in the water, a sea lion named Ronan can bob her head to music.
According to The Associated Press, a new study shows that not only could Ronan keep the rhythm to music, she can do it better than humans can.
In the study, Ronan was played drum beats to different tempos while scientists observed her bobbing along in rhythm. Meanwhile, 10 college students were asked to do the same thing with their arms, but fell short to Ronan’s skills.
“No human was better than Ronan at all the different ways we test quality of beat-keeping,” says researcher Peter Cook.
The results test the long-held notion that the ability to identify rhythms in music was exclusive to humans, along with parrots and some primates.
Much like the beat, it looks like scientists will have to turn that thought around.