by metatron 11 Replies latest jw friends
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/absurd-creature-week-lyrebird/
What sounds can a lyrebird accurately reproduce? There are spoofs and hoaxes but also reported evidence that they can make some amazing sounds. Chainsaws? Camera shutters? Instruments?
Various science sites leave the matter unclear.
metatron
Yup, HOAX!!
Real
Wikipedia lists a number of references claiming that they can mimic mechanical stuff. There is also a site claiming that Attenborough had lyrebird chicks that learned to imitate a chain saw and car alarm but that they would not do so in the wild.
I dunno.
metatron
It was an April fools joke made by the BBC.
This one was brilliant, BBC again.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/lyrebirds_mimicking_chainsaws
This hoax site seems to say that they can do such sounds but don't do so in the wild!
metatron
Nat'l Geographic says real?
metatron
PRETTY COOL
Heck, magpies mimic. I swear I knew a magpie who could imitate the distant sound of children at recess.
http://theconversation.com/lyrebirds-mimicking-chainsaws-fact-or-lie-22529
Both. Lyrebirds don't do it in the wild, but a captive lyrebird did.
Evolutionists are not stumped by the peacock. Some Darwin quotes on the matter:
"...I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, and now small trifling particulars of structure often make me feel uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!" (Darwin to Asa Gray Apr. 3, 1860)
[Fifteen years later, Darwin wrote of the "black-shouldered peacock, the so-called Pavo nigripennis given in my 'Var. under Domest.;'...the variety is in many respects intermediate between the two known species." (Darwin to August Weismann Dec. 6, 1875) So, Darwin did not doubt that peacocks and their complex feathers had evolved. - ED.]
"For the life of me I cannot see any difficulty in natural selection producing the most exquisite structure, if such structure can be arrived at by gradation, and I know from experience how hard it is to name any structure towards which at least some gradations are not known." (Darwin to Charles Lyell Apr. 1860)
Yes, from BBC documentaries I believe it's real. It just "evidently" proves that Jehovah intended us to make chainsaws and internal combustion engines as he designbed birds to mimick these 21st century sounds. ;) only kidding.
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