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Ventriloquist Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies
ScienceDaily Dec. 7, 2009 Ventriloquist birds call to warn friends and enemies excerpt from above Quote:
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However, the main species tested -- juncos, warblers and finches -- all showed an ability to focus their calls in the direction of the owl, so these calls could also function to warn off a predator.
Not much different than we'd react upon sighting a bear nearby. We'd shout out at them to to scare them off too!
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Maricopa , Arizona , U.S.A.
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Never considered the use of ventriloquism by birds but do not find the possibility of such that surprising . Just where did mankind learn some skills from ? Nature is a great teacher .
I find distress/warning calls given off by the burrowing owls make me look up when about on the property . I often will upon looking about then spy dogs wandering about . Not sure but I would guess thier calls to be omni directional . When thier young emerge here in/about mid-may it is amusing to watch the babies scurry off to the burrow entrance and dive headlong down into the tunnel/s when such a call is given |
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