Wrong species, mister. For that you wanna hire a woodpecker.mayan wrote:Plus I bet it would be a hell of a companion to the Woodblock Emulation.
Poll: Train local mockingbird to imitate Moogs, Arps, etc.?
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- Skunk Mod
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- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Do it! 
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
whatever that meat beat manifesto track aphex remixed.. with the big blip! sounds...
those, there one he liked.. but rhythm...
those, there one he liked.. but rhythm...
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRian
- 1269 posts since 6 Nov, 2002 from where moose mate, mate
Yeah, make him sound like a Moog! That should be interesting, maybe even useful. Be careful he doesn't end up growling like a c**t though. I'm afraid that could ruin his chances of ever mating again. Seriously.
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- KVRAF
- 1509 posts since 28 Oct, 2003 from London, UK
Forget the mockingbird and use a mynah bird instead.
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- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Mayur, you're right! They're experts. But none live outside my house. :-D
Lyrebirds are also amazing mimics. A TV showed one imitating a nature photographer's camera shutter and electric film advance to perfection. The photog found it funny but unnerving. But they don't live around here either.
... Lyrebirds, that is. We have photographers.
Lyrebirds are also amazing mimics. A TV showed one imitating a nature photographer's camera shutter and electric film advance to perfection. The photog found it funny but unnerving. But they don't live around here either.
... Lyrebirds, that is. We have photographers.
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- KVRAF
- 1509 posts since 28 Oct, 2003 from London, UK
Funny about the shutter noise imitation... these creatures do seem to have an uncanny sense of humour
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Bird sounds... heh. At the apartment I lived in for years -- at the edge where large, high-crime urban neighborhoods cut into what had been country not long before, right next to the railroad tracks -- it wasn't unusual to wake up in the morning or in the middle of the night to any of the following nearby sounds. I expected some of them, but not others:
* gunfire
* dog(s) barking
* train passing
* rooster crowing
* cars hurtling along narrow road
* peacocks hooting
* emus (I think they made a sound; not sure about that)
The peacocks (and peahens) lived just outside the crummy apartment complex where I lived, the emus a block toward the main drag. I have no idea why exotic birds seemed to be so popular around there. Never saw them anywhere else in the city, especially the poor neighborhoods.
* gunfire
* dog(s) barking
* train passing
* rooster crowing
* cars hurtling along narrow road
* peacocks hooting
* emus (I think they made a sound; not sure about that)
The peacocks (and peahens) lived just outside the crummy apartment complex where I lived, the emus a block toward the main drag. I have no idea why exotic birds seemed to be so popular around there. Never saw them anywhere else in the city, especially the poor neighborhoods.
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- KVRAF
- 4048 posts since 18 Sep, 2004 from Places far less tedious than this blue trainwreck...
I was just about to mention Lyrebirds! I take it you're referring to that David Attenborough program, right? I was both amazed and quite saddened that it could do a perfect imitation of a chainsaw...Meffy wrote:Mayur, you're right! They're experts. But none live outside my house.
Lyrebirds are also amazing mimics. A TV showed one imitating a nature photographer's camera shutter and electric film advance to perfection. The photog found it funny but unnerving. But they don't live around here either.
... Lyrebirds, that is. We have photographers.
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- KVRAF
- 9064 posts since 1 Aug, 2003
Cats are great too. Ever wondered why they wave their tail as they crawl stealthily towards a prey?
They do that to generate antisound to mask their movements!
They do that to generate antisound to mask their movements!
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- 995 posts since 4 Mar, 2004
I must be weird because it's me who ends up mimicking the birds around here! 
My favourites are the white cockatoos and the Kookaburra's (related to the amazing Kingfisher)
who sound just like they are having a hearty laugh. There's a local expression that states that the kookaburras always get the last laugh
heres a pic
Funny looking things eh?
Kind of like a bigger less pretty kingfisher.
Also I have heard white cockatoos saying all sorts of stuff,
and sounding like they meant it too!!
I've also heard one mimicking a telephone ringing, which it seemed to think was hillarious.
My favourites are the white cockatoos and the Kookaburra's (related to the amazing Kingfisher)
who sound just like they are having a hearty laugh. There's a local expression that states that the kookaburras always get the last laugh
heres a pic
Funny looking things eh?
Kind of like a bigger less pretty kingfisher.
Also I have heard white cockatoos saying all sorts of stuff,
and sounding like they meant it too!!
I've also heard one mimicking a telephone ringing, which it seemed to think was hillarious.