Lyrebird: Mimicry

James Addison

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/animal-superpowers/

Lyrebird (Menura) The Australian lyrebird loves to sing songs to woo its mates. The male’s courtship display includes beautiful tunes that each individual creates, mixed in with a bunch of stolen sounds from its environment. Because they have the most complexly-muscled vocal chords of any songbird, lyrebirds can reproduce an insane variety of sounds both natural and artificial, including chainsaws, car engines, barking dogs, and human voices. If you ever get bitten by a radioactive lyrebird, you can probably expect a Top 40 pop career while moonlighting as a masked vigilante fighting crime with the power of voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y Image: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos/Wikimedia Video: BBCWorldwide/Youtube