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

What sounds can you hear? 🤔 Here's a special Flashback Friday to a beloved lyrebird 'Chook' from Adelaide Zoo 💕 Chook had a very long, heatlhy life at the zoo, living for over 30 years, sadly he passed away in 2011. He was well known for this great video mimicing sounds from local construction work 😍 🎥: Adelaide Zoo | ABC Adelaide

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