Chook the Lyrebird - Neatorama

You might recall Sir David Attenborough introducing us to the lyrebird, a master of mimcry (and later the wonderful remix). Chook the lyrebird lives at the Adelaide Zoo. After a period of construction at the zoo, Chook was able to recreate the sounds of hammers, saws, and power tools exactly. Link -via Arbroath

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Wow, never heard are seen this before. Great video!

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this very cool .i need a pic of it.

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Reminds me of when I lived in Phoenix. I'd regularly hear birds that could imitate car alarms. Not just the sound of the alarm, but the entire sequence the alarm goes through, in appropriate order.

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Impressive tail feathers.

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Very cool. I need a tape recorder...

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It's interesting that despite this article having a subtle inference to 'billions of years,' that you not only refer to this area as having been Eden, but point out that its age is in line with the Biblical account of a global catastrophe (flood) about 4400 years ago.

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Big parts of Sahara are under sea level. I've always wondered what would happen if you'd put a sea there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

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The Sahara is NOT the world's largest desert as stated in this article. It is the world's largest HOT desert, but only the third largest desert, the first two being the antarctic and the arctic.

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If you took all the sand in North Africa and spread it out it would cover an area the size of the Sahara Desert.

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