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Lyrebird: The Chainsaw Mimic of New South Wales

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In 2007 in New South Wales, the call echoing through the forest wasn’t a chainsaw at all-it was a superb lyrebird named Echo. By standing in dense bushland, Echo could perfectly reproduce the buzz and rattle of a two-stroke engine, down to the high-pitched whir as the blade cut into wood. Scientists found his routines included thirty different mimic sounds, from camera shutters clicking to car alarms wailing. But Echo’s most convincing impersonation-the one that made loggers stop and look for equipment-was the chainsaw, copied because for decades, those noises were all he heard from dawn to dusk.

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In Australia's New South Wales, the superb lyrebird can imitate not just rival bird calls but the exact whine of construction equipment, including chainsaws. Researchers have even recorded individual lyrebirds copying camera shutters and car alarms with eerie precision. Discover why this bird learned to mimic the most alien, unnatural sounds it hears daily in the wild.

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