{"id":6356,"date":"2019-06-30T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T10:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2019-08-14T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:24:55","slug":"seals-taught-to-sing-twinkle-twinkle-little-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/en\/seals-taught-to-sing-twinkle-twinkle-little-star\/","title":{"rendered":"These Seals Were Taught To Sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Typically we don&#8217;t think of seals as <strong>musically gifted creatures<\/strong>, but <strong>scientists at the University of St. Andrews<\/strong> in Scotland have managed to train a <strong>choir of three seals<\/strong>, as seen in this latest video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5U_koym1tc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Granted, the <strong>trio of gray seals<\/strong> only have two songs <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/en\/how-technology-is-zapping-our-memory\/\">memorized<\/a> under their belt, <strong>&#8220;Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star&#8221;<\/strong> and the <strong>theme to &#8220;Star Wars.&#8221;<\/strong> However, this is a far cry from the <strong>occasional bark <\/strong>we expect to hear from this <strong>sea creature. <\/strong>Yes, all in the name of science!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Singing With A Purpose<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>purpose of the study<\/strong> was to see if animals can be<strong> successful at vocal learning. <\/strong>This skill is vital for humans in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/en\/alcohol-does-help-when-speaking-foreign-languages\/\">learning language<\/a><\/strong>, but rarely seen in animals. Published in the <strong>scientific journal<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-uk-twinkle-star.html\">Current Biology<\/a>, the study aimed to see if seals could copy human formants and melodies, which are <strong>needed for humans to process information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-seal-3281160_640.jpg\" alt=\"grey seal lying on sand.\" class=\"wp-image-6362\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can imagine, learning <strong>human languages<\/strong> is not <strong>native to seals. <\/strong>For this reason, the animals were first trained to <strong>mimic their own sounds <\/strong>and the sounds of <strong>human vowels. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this might seem like a simple task, the <strong>reality <\/strong>of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/singing-seals-scotland-twinkle-twinkle-little-star_n_5d0cfcabe4b0a3941861c0fd\">according to the researchers <\/a>was quite the opposite. 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However, the researchers were <strong>extremely impressed<\/strong> given these sounds are not typical of their species, proving their<strong> vocalization is apt for learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Next Steps For The Seals<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>While their <strong>ability to make human sounds is proven<\/strong>, the next step is to see if these creatures <strong>understand language. <\/strong>This would require further investigation with the animals labeling different objects, <strong>vocally.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/maria-e-mayobre-FjdUKefWjEY-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"seals lying on a chair hugging each other.\" class=\"wp-image-6360\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This might seem <strong>silly research<\/strong> to the average human, but this <strong>investigation is useful <\/strong>because <strong>seals and humans<\/strong> <strong>share the same neural and anatomical structures.<\/strong> Meaning, the research in vocal learning on seals can <strong>help better understand human speech disorders and learning. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photos: Unsplash and Pixabay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably don&#8217;t think of sea creatures as being musically talented&#8230; but these seals were taught to sing a few tunes- all in the name of science!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[555,714,554],"tags":[1086,1089,1088,1083,1084,642,1085,1087,1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-6356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-curious","8":"category-featured-more","9":"category-science","10":"tag-animals","11":"tag-language","12":"tag-learning","13":"tag-research","14":"tag-researchers","15":"tag-science-2","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sea","18":"tag-seals","19":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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