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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.Got a minute?
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2 .(Music plays)
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3 .Neil Young? No, that's Jimmy Fallon imitating Neil Young.
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4 .Doing impressions can be a valuable skill.
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5 .In fact, a bird called the fork-tailed drongo makes a good living at it, in its home in Africa's Kahalari Desert.
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6 .The drongo can mimic the alarm calls of another bird.
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7 .When that bird flees the imagined danger, the drongo swoops in to take any food left behind.
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8 .An animal mimicking another animal is not rare.
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9 .And targets can grow wise to the trick.
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10 .The drongo's real talent is that it can do the warning calls of multiple species.
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11 .Like how Jimmy Fallon can also do Van Morrison.
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12 .Researchers followed 64 wild drongos for nearly 850 hours.
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13 .Drongos do sound accurate alarms in response to actual predators.
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14 .But when they spot a tempting meal in another bird's possession, they send out a false alarm.
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15 .Here's one mimicking a pied babbler.
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16 .Another a glossy starling's alarm.
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17 .And here's a drongo mimicking a meerkat alarm.
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18 .The researchers saw almost 700 drongo attempts to steal food.
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19 .They estimate that any one drongo might know up to 32 different species' alarms.
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20 .And stolen food accounted for nearly a quarter of their daily intake.
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21 .The study is in the journal Science.
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22 .Fool birds once? Shame on them.
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23 .Fool birds multiple times? Success for the fork-tailed drongo.
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24 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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