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Think humans are the only creatures capable of grooving to a beat?
人類是唯一能夠隨著節(jié)拍起舞的生物嗎？
Think again.
不是。
Turns out agrowing number of animals are just as musically inclined.
事實上，越來越多的動物顯示出音樂天賦。
Now, you may already know that parrots and other birds that mimic human speech are also goodat keeping time to a musical beat.
你可能已經(jīng)知道鸚鵡和其他一些能夠模仿人類語言的鳥類也擅于把握音樂節(jié)拍。
Scientists think it's a side effect of repeating human speechsounds.
科學家認為這是它們重復人類語言聲音而產生的副作用。
But researchers have found that both sea lions and bonobos are also capable of bopping to abeat.
但是，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，海獅和倭黑猩猩也有樂感。
Researchers beat a drum at around 280 beats per minute and found that bonobos wereable to pick up the beat and play it on a specially designed drum.
研究人員以每分鐘約280次的速度擊鼓，發(fā)現(xiàn)倭黑猩猩能夠跟上節(jié)奏，并在一個特制的鼓上演奏出來。
Now, given that bonobos are closely related to humans, their rhythmic ability might not soundvery surprising.
由于倭黑猩猩是人類的“近親”，它們具有節(jié)奏感也許并不稀奇。
In the wild, bonobos are known to beat on hollow trees.
在野外，倭黑猩猩以能在中空的樹上擊打出節(jié)奏而聞名。
But sea lions are adifferent story they're not known to follow or pick up a beat.
但海獅卻不一樣，人們可從不知道它們能跟上節(jié)拍。
So it was surprising when researchers working with a sea lion they named Ronan were able to trainher to bob her head in time to different tempos.
因此當研究人員同一只名叫羅南的海獅共同協(xié)作，訓練它能夠隨著不同的節(jié)拍搖頭晃腦就十分令人驚奇了。
Beyond the fact that teaching a sea lion to groove to a beat is pretty cool, it also suggests thatthe ability may be much more widespread in the animal kingdom than we've assumed, and thatkeeping time to a beat is not limited to animals able to mimic human speech.
訓練海獅“聞拍起舞”十分有范兒，但也這表明動物王國中有樂感的動物也許要比我們想象的多，能跟上節(jié)拍的動物也不僅限于能夠“學舌”的動物。
So we may not yet be at the point where we'll see rock bands with seals or apes on drums, but when it comes to music, humans and other animals appear to have more in common than meetsthe eye.
也許目前我們還看不到一個由海豹或猩猩組成的搖滾樂隊，但是，在音樂方面，人類和其他動物似乎比表面上看起來有更多共同點。
