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- Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+240Everything sounds better when you have a narrator with a British accent.
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+101RIAA is going to sue this bird for copying songs.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+95Na, the chainsaw made me think is was an april fool!!
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+78You'd be amazing at mimicking sounds too if your only chance to have sex depended on it.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -6/+81He hears car alarms in the jungle? WTF?!
- Gus1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75Wow, i was surprised at how accurately the sounds we recreated. The camera shutter was the best in my opinion.
- gypsyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+67What is so good about David Attenborough is not just his accent, but his ability to use adjectives other than "amazing" and "awesome".
- spideyfanatic, on 10/12/2007, -18/+78That was awesome. Stuff like that amazes me.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61So.......to impress women we should park outside their bedroom with the car alarm blaring, wielding a chainsaw and snapping photos?
- simoncoul, on 10/12/2007, -6/+63That bird is friggin crazy!
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+55"Everything sounds better when you have a narrator with a British accent."
That the world renowned David Attenborough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough Richard Attenborough's brother you know the old guy in Jurrasic Park, he also played Santa Clause in Miracle on 34th street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attenborough
Anyway David is the world best when it comes to this stuff, he's a legend.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8843647651614184560&q=david attenborough - johnsto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+54What's even more amazing is that David Attenborough had a bad cold on the day of filming, so he mimed while the Lyrebird narrated for him.
- EquinnoxX, on 10/12/2007, -8/+54Heh, I'll be impressed when he can scream "BOOOOM HEADSHOT!!!"
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45In the US we have mockingbirds. They are pretty good, but not as good as this. They are good enough to keep me running for the phone when I'm in the back yard though. :^D
- Flankk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Hello. I myself have watched every single video on the internet. Yes, even the naughty bits. I can vouch that this is, in fact, the most amazing birdsong ever.
Where is the logic in telling people to stop digging a story? That's like telling a troll to stop being a pedantic prick. - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35xxBondsxx, you've obviously never owned a parrot. They can convincingly immitate phones, pagers, dogs, human voices, car horns, anything they hear. The more talented ones like the African Gray Parrot I've even seen call dogs to them when they're bored in their master's voice. It amuses them. I've answered the phone before when the parrot immitated it and the doorbell. Birds are amazing mimics.
- warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35I'm going to find one and play the Star Wars theme over and over.
But seriously, the real question is what is the evolutionary advantage of that? Either the males that do that are going to die out or the females will find it sexy and the behavior will persist. - bkubiat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32The THX sound would also be quite cute...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30It's not much help, but I saw this nature program a while back (hey, if it's on TV and has David Attenborough in it, it must be true, right?!), and yeah it's amazing, but they do actually sound like that... really clever stuff
- deut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I could have sworn it sounded a bit like R2-D2 during the chainsaw bit
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30"chainsaws, car alarms, camera shutters"
Sounds like that would normally scare away other creatures. - BurninatorX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23The RIAA might have an interest in making this bird extinct, just in case.
- david76, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30@xxBondsxx
I guess that's why you're not an ornithologist. - stuma9000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Go Aussie birds! They often use Lyre birds as telemarketers here in Australia.
- crazyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Actually all people speak with an accent :)
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I'm sorry but if I was walking on a street and I saw a bird making chainsaw noises, I'd be seriously freaked out.
Anyone see Birds by Alfred Hitchcock?
...the pecked out eyes haunt me until today... - jakeg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21@david76...
i'm sure there are plenty of reasons one would choose not to study birds for a living... - jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Where can i buy it?
...oh and a fitting muzzle aswell - ThePotatoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19You're not very amazing
- BigG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18"He hears car alarms in the jungle"
He hears lumber workers. Why not the lumber workers car? - Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22I love comments like that! Straight, and to the point.
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17It is a little known fact that Larvell from Police Academy is 1/16th Lyrebird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzIHWsr8Ydo - spenceman01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17That is insane. I didn't beliebve it at first, but there seems to be a lot of documentation to back this up. Just keep that thing away from the Vonage commercials!
- MrLobster, on 10/12/2007, -17/+33This was in the excellent BBC "The Life of Birds" documentary. 540 minutes of birds on DVD. What is better than that?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000069HXL/qid=1150235491/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5475971-7253465?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130 - blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Um. its SIR Richard Attenborough, and you forgot his best movie of all time, The Great Escape.
- PhilM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16That is phenomenal. However it must be a bad sign when even the birds are singing human sounds, especially chainsaws. It shows the impact of humans on nature in such a remote and undisturbed place.
- sladek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16All of those sounds were amazing
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18"...and other sounds of the forest.
Kudos on the great cutline. - pete10203, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12At first he sounds like r2d2, WHICH IS A ROBOT, so it's tech related.
- pidge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Can I buy one of these at Petsmart?
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The only thing better than that is posting a link to your Amazon referrer account and get moded up for it, somehow. Oh yeah, and "gettin' paid"...
- ldhotsoup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Doesn't buy it? The vid isn't out there to prove something. It's a documentation of something that is.
It's good to have skepticism of videos on the internet, I'm sure, but this is from a larger BBC documentary. There's nothing to 'buy' into. - quinnk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Attenborough didn't become a knight by lying. In a study by Readers' Digest, he was voted most trusted British celebrity. Heck, the guy even has an echidna named after him. The fact that he presents this series among others is good enough for me - if he told me the moon was made out of cheese, I'd believe him.
You don't need to BS about nature - there's enough "amazing" (or if you prefer, incredible, spectacular, stunning, astounding, thrilling) life out there that it's unnecessary to lie about it. - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11All that and no female bird showed up... he needs to learn to reporduce the sound of money.. or at least a cash registier.. cha-cHING!.. I bet a whole flock of them come running after that.
- shawnz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Interesting bits start at 01:55.
- helix400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ath3us, I later clicked on some of the links at the bottom of the wikipedia article, and they also say it can do chainsaw sounds.
Amazing stuff. - norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This bird would have been great in Home Alone.
- Omega697, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I cannot stress enough how awesome the rest of this video series is. You should definitely give it a shot, if you've got the time/netflix. Life of Birds. Life of Mammals is also incredible.
- boardsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Sorry, you're wrong. I've seen this first hand. It didn't do a chainsaw, but it did some convincing machinery as well as other birds. Then it proceeded to walk over my shoe and continue into the bushes. Its "show" lasted a good 10 minutes with the feathers flairing and everything. Quite impressive.
- chuffdogg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"This was in the excellent BBC "The Life of Birds" documentary. 540 minutes of birds on DVD. What is better than that?"
I like that documentary but I prefer the expurgated version. The one without the Gannet (they wet their nests) -
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