lundi 25 juin 2012

The Lyre Bird Sound System

The Lyre Bird lives in Australia and has acquired an incredible talent in order to impress chicks: it can imitate almost anything. He impersonates at least 20 different birds perfectly as well as other animals such koalas or dingos. He has also incoporated astonishing  human caused sounds in his repertoire: camera shutters, car alarms and even chainsaws!

Make sure your speakers are on when you watch this:

  
The Lyre Bird learns from its environment and from other Lyre Birds.Tunes and sounds are passed from one generation to another. In this video, he mimicries construction work noises:






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