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awesome bird
« on: January 19, 2008, 09:22:40 pm »
watch it all, its amazing from 2 minutes onward.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YzlTB8fEsA[/youtube]
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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2008, 10:38:13 pm »

doesnt david attenborough have the best job in the world?  :)


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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 11:14:55 pm »

doesnt david attenborough have the best job in the world?  :)
yes
and he is a legend.
did you ever see the documantary , with michael palin interviewing him?
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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 02:03:37 am »
Jesus. Just think what you could do with a bird like that and a Pacman machine.

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 08:31:50 am »
Is that last part with the chainsaw real???????

If so, HOLY ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I want one of those birds!

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 09:45:58 am »

That has to be a put on.   :dizzy:

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 10:04:20 am »

That has to be a put on.   :dizzy:

hard to believe isnt it, but the fact that david attenborough is the presenter is enough for me.
i think the motorised camera is pretty cool.
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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2008, 10:54:49 am »
Some birds mimic ability is astounding.  My aunt has some sort of bird that says literally dozens and dozens of things... Mimics the dog barking....the cat meowings... the TV announcers and even a couple of TV show jingles.   

One of the funny things it does is the CLAPPER commercial.  Says "Clap on...clap off...clap on...the clapper" then makes a clapping sound...it sounds pretty damn good.

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2008, 01:10:21 am »

That has to be a put on.   :dizzy:

hehe. you know, im not sure if ive actually seen a lyre bird but they quite shy. about the mimicry, this from wiki:

"One researcher, Sydney Curtis, has recorded flute-like lyrebird calls in the vicinity of the New England National Park. Similarly, in 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song, which resembled flute sounds, in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales. After much detective work by Fenton, it was discovered that in the 1930's, a flute player living on a farm adjoining the park used to play tunes near his pet lyrebird. The lyrebird adopted the tunes into his repertoire, and retained them after release into the park. Neville Fenton forwarded a tape of his recording to Norman Robinson. Because a lyrebird is able to carry two tunes at the same time, Robinson filtered out one of the tunes and put it on the phonograph for the purposes of analysis. The song represents a modified version of two popular tunes in the 1930s: "The Keel Row" and "Mosquito's Dance". Musicologist David Rothenberg has endorsed this information"


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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2008, 08:52:31 am »

Flutes are one thing.  Chainsaws and camera shutters are an entirely different matter.

Someone leave that bird on a porno shoot and then release it into the wild.

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2008, 09:08:36 am »

Flutes are one thing.  Chainsaws and camera shutters are an entirely different matter.

Someone leave that bird on a porno shoot and then release it into the wild.

hehe, anyone ever read "Next" by Michael Chricton? There is a genetically enhanced parrot in that book that is HILARIOUS.

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Re: awesome bird
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2008, 04:07:44 pm »

Flutes are one thing.  Chainsaws and camera shutters are an entirely different matter.

Someone leave that bird on a porno shoot and then release it into the wild.

hehe, anyone ever read "Next" by Michael Chricton? There is a genetically enhanced parrot in that book that is HILARIOUS.

Yeah, I read that book...HILARIOUS!

The mimicry of the bird in that vid is amazing, and I have no doubt, real.