Sound Imitation

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:featured] drongo makes a good living at it, in its home in Africa's [Kalahari:Sahara] Desert. The drongo can mimic the alarm calls of another bird. When that bird flees the [imagined:described] danger, the drongo swoops in to take any food left behind. An animal [mimicking:extinguishing] 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:earning] calls of multiple species. Like how Jimmy Fallon can also do Van Morrison.Researchers [followed:swallowed] 64 wild drongos for nearly 850 hours.