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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #32829
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Sound Imitation
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Neil Young? No, that's Jimmy Fallon imitating Neil Young. Doing impressions can be a valuable skill. In fact, a bird called the fork-tailed drongo makes a good living at it, in its home in Africa’s Kalahari Desert. The drongo can mimic the alarm calls of another bird. When that bird flees the imagined danger, the drongo swoops in to take any food left behind. An animal mimicking another animal is not rare. And targets can grow wise to the trick. The drongo’s real talent is that it can do the warning calls of multiple species. Like how Jimmy Fallon can also do Van Morrison. Researchers followed 64 wild drongos for nearly 850 hours. Drongos do sound accurate alarms in response to actual predators. But when they spot a tempting meal in another bird's possession.
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