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This made me laugh! I thought it was my daughter

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AJx89 · 03/09/2021 16:57

This video began to play and I jumped up thinking it was my daughter! Lol! www.independent.co.uk/tv/editors-picks/lyrebird-bird-mimics-crying-baby-vc4e1154b

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PainterInPeril · 03/09/2021 19:21

@AJx89 I've just watched it and I can't help laughing! It's like the bird is taking the mickey out of a tantrumming toddler!Grin
Years ago at a zoo, I kept hearing and trying to find a "lost/upset child" only to fall over the free-range peacocks that were hiding behind the bushes!BlushGrin They sound just like a crying baby too. Not as life-like as that lyrebird though!

JMAngel1 · 04/09/2021 08:14

That is surreal.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/09/2021 09:22

Amazing - some birds are such excellent mimics.

A starling in our garden used to mimic perfectly the sound of an old phone ringing, the ‘trimphone’ IIRC. More than once I was fooled into going inside to answer it.

And a mynah bird, a temp. ‘guest’ where I used to babysit many years ago, used to say, ‘Where’s Audrey?’ in the exact tone of a very querulous old woman.

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