Parrots are the bird world's most famous voice mimics, but it turns out a lot of other species have the knack. From passerines to a very unique individual duck in Australia, many birds can copy both human voices and other sounds, such as cell phones. Among these masters of mimicry are Australia's lyrebirds... or, as Taronga zookeepers might be tempted to call them, "dirty rotten liar birds". Ever since a recent incident in which some lions got loose in the Zoo, the birds have taken to sounding the evacuation alarm, which I'm sure that their keepers are just having a great sense of humor about.
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