Lyre bird is a liar bird

[bcp]

Even imitates car alarms and chainsaws.

Bruce

 

[bunyip]

Grunting of wild pigs and fire truck sirens, have had me fooled a few times.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

I love Attenborough's Life series. Absolutely the best nature docuseries ever produced.

 

[oosik]

Attenborough is light years beyond anything else. Wonder if that bird could imitate human speech.

 

[bunyip]

Apparently not, just repetitive noises but they are very convincing.

 

[OldPaint]

They have a few of them in the Adelaide zoo. Very cool to hear them mimic everything around them.