Meet the lyrebird, world famous for their near-perfect imitations. This lyrebird resides at the Taronga Zoo, and has been around enough children to mimic crying with incredible accuracy 🤯 In the wild, when a lyrebird mother feels threatened she will often imitate the calls of larger avian predators to frighten or confuse, and draw the burglar away from the nest. Protecting the nest is a high-stakes game, and defenses are limited. Each year the female lays just one egg. This chick takes six week

Name a better impersonator than a lyrebird. | ABC Science

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Sound on for this. Lyrebirds are masters of mimicry and can imitate almost anything, even chainsaws and building sites. How they and other bird species do this has been a mystery - until now. | New Scientist

2.6M views · 145K reactions | How many sounds can you count?  Local photographer Melissa has captured this great footage of Nova the Lyrebird at Adelaide Zoo ❤️ : Melissa Tonkin #abcmyvideo | ABC Adelaide | Facebook