Jo March may not have said “I do,” but Saoirse Ronan did. The Irish actor, whose character famously avoids marriage in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women,” has tied the knot — very quietly.

As she has aged, the pinniped’s rhythmic abilities have only improved. Ronan, a California sea lion of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Credit...Colleen Reichmuth ...