This is completely awesome!

[thegiraffe]

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/am...-dj/3425699574

This is what's called a Lyre Bird. They live in Australia and imitate EVERYTHING they hear. Listen carefully - it's truly amazing!

(Totally safe for work, btw).

[CanadaGirl]

Lol fake much

[jb17kx]

Thaey're not that good! I have heard one do a very convincing dog, though...

[Ree]

Lol fake much

Actually, NO!!!
http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/songs/index.html

"The lyrebird, which Sir David Attenborough meets on a log in a dense forest in Australia, is the bird world's best mimic. It can imitate 12 other birds. It does the whirring of a camera's motor drive and the click of a shutter. It repeats the engine of a car, and the din of a car alarm. It can even imitate the screech of the chainsaw wielded by the loggers coming to cut down its habitat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Menuridae
http://animals.jrank.org/pages/1064/...S-ACCOUNT.html

"Lyrebirds' extraordinary ability to mimic sounds has amused people for as long as the species have coexisted. One local story from the nineteenth century described how a lyrebird repeatedly caused the evacuation of a logging operation with its imitation of a fire siren until the loggers discovered the culprit."

[thegiraffe]

Yeah, they're quite awesome. We discussed it in my psychology of learning class when I was in college.

The entire class was in awe.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

When I worked at the zoo, we had a parrot of some sort (I don't remember what kind, it was a long time ago) that used to belong to a trucker before he came to the zoo. He was kept in the backups as a breeder and not put on display because not only did he have a filthy mouth, but he could perfectly mimic CB radios and road noise.

[DarthRetard]

It was probably the African Grey Parrot, RK.

[rvdammit]

It was probably the African Grey Parrot, RK.

Most unlikely to have been a Norwegian Blue.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Most unlikely to have been a Norwegian Blue.

Yeah, they pine for the fjords.

Years ago when we went to visit my grandparents in Florida. we went to a zoo/animal sanctuary someplace (maybe Sarasota, I think). They had myna birds there which can also imitate voices.

My grandma kept trying to get the bird to say "Oh boy." Finally, the bird retorted "Wow."

[Gawdzillers]

I can maybe believe the chainsaw and other bird species, but I'll eat my hat if that thing was really singing music.
EDIT: Of course it wasn't, I didn't notice the Young Punx ad at the end.

[Ree]

Yeah...you gotta watch that one right to the end.

I've seen the original David Attenborough one so many times, though. At first, I thought it was phony, but I searched all over and have never found anything to say it's a fake.