Lyre Bird Imitating a Chainsaw

That was incredible! Reminds me of that guy from Police Academy.
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Good clip but it's a sad day when habitat destuction is common enough for a bird to imitate it. I did some reading and it's not endangered anymore, so maybe Australia's habitat protection programs are working.

That camera sound was my favorite, too.
 
As much as I like and respect David Attenborough...

That is BS!!!

How loud are those cameras? The bird may have better hearing than humans but I imagine you'd have to get REAL close for it to pick up the camera. Even if you were sitting in a blind, as soon as the camera clicked, the bird would take off in a panic of flapping wings and could not make out the full cycle of the camera. I could almost believe the chainsaw... but we also hear a hand saw, like a cross-cut- back and forth, back and forth- baloney!

Hey, if I'm wrong, Great! The world is very strange, but many things need to be questioned... this is one of them.

So is this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCJzO3w7_M

...that has got to be a commercial or something.
 
I know it's somewhat incredulous but I think it's real :)

For what it's worth, when we were living out West we noticed the Mocking birds in our neighborhood would do car alarms quite often - nothing close to the Lyre bird, but they did have the cadence and approximate sounds down quite well - guess that also is an indicator of the neighborhood we lived in ;)

It's some fun anyway -

Here's a link about the Lyre Bird.

peace,

mk
 
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