This Lyrebird Has Played Too Many Video Games! PEW PEW PEW PEW

[KittyWampus]

It's Saturday…. so file this under interesting factoid about birds in other countries other than our own.

[Scootaloo]

1. Here's one really odd thought...

These birds copy each other, too - they don't need a direct source to mimic. so it's entirely possible that some of the noises we hear them make... are actually the calls and noises of animals that are now extinct.

And if they manage to outlive us? R2-D2's beeps and bloops might still being passed down through generation after generation of lyrebird

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I want a lyrebird!

[In_The_Wind]

3. He's beautiful when he shakes his tail feathers.

[Duckhunter935]

4. this is impressive also

car alarms, camera shutters and chainsaw imitations.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. The chainsaw is awesome. n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. C3PO, can you translate for us! n/t

[freshwest]

7. We taught a mockingbird by whistling to sing the tones in 'Close Encounters of the Third Time.'

Everyone's a repeater, humans, too.

[MineralMan]

8. I did that, too, in California.

I whistled Yankee Doodle over and over again to a mockingbird outside my bedroom window as a kid. After a month, it added that to its songs. I was very pleased.

[KittyWampus]

9. kicking in case someone needs a smile