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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.Got a minute?

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(Music plays)

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Neil Young? No, that's Jimmy Fallon imitating Neil Young.

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Doing impressions can be a valuable skill.

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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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The drongo can mimic the alarm calls of another bird.

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When that bird flees the imagined danger, the drongo swoops in to take any food left behind.

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An animal mimicking another animal is not rare.

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And targets can grow wise to the trick.

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The drongo's real talent is that it can do the warning calls of multiple species.

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Like how Jimmy Fallon can also do Van Morrison.

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Researchers followed 64 wild drongos for nearly 850 hours.

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Drongos do sound accurate alarms in response to actual predators.

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But when they spot a tempting meal in another bird's possession, they send out a false alarm.

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Here's one mimicking a pied babbler.

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Another a glossy starling's alarm.

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And here's a drongo mimicking a meerkat alarm.

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The researchers saw almost 700 drongo attempts to steal food.

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They estimate that any one drongo might know up to 32 different species' alarms.

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And stolen food accounted for nearly a quarter of their daily intake.

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The study is in the journal Science.

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Fool birds once? Shame on them.

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Fool birds multiple times? Success for the fork-tailed drongo.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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