Seals Trained to Sing Star Wars Theme Song

I hate earnestness, but I love these singing seals

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theme song, and definitely like the iconic children’s ditty “Twinkle, twinkle, little star.” Researchers studied the vocalizations of three grey seals, including Zola, and then trained them to utilize their voices in an approximation of “music.” It’s notmusic, but it is... something? Endearing, mostly. Adorable. Extremely earnest in a way that I generally abhor in humans, but welcome in fauna. Just look at this guy.

What’s remarkable is not how well the seal can sing the song, but how shy the seal is about the fact that it is singing. Never mind that its enclosure resembles the swampy surroundings that the Fish God fromr inhabited; I am sure that nothing nefarious is afoot here and it is all just kosher scientific research.

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