A friend of mine showed me this last weekend and I was convinced it was a fake. Like the flying penguins and the really crap one Stephen Fry did about the shark-whale-shark thing. It seems like it’s been dreamed up in a creative department somewhere, but if it is genuine, then it’s a pretty amazing reflection of the world we live in.
Of course when I was a child there was no such thing as deforestation, so Lyre birds didn’t know how to make chainsaw noises. They did, however, do a pretty nifty impression of bears defecating.
ps – if you’re thinking of going to see Ricky Gervais’s new movie The Invention of Lying, don’t. Well, you can if you want, but you’d really be better off giving the money to a nice charity.
Whaaat? I know starlings can imitate car alarms, ish, but this? I laughed out loud at the chainsaw noise.
I really hope it’s real. But I’d hazard a guess that’s it’s a very nice ‘viral’ for BBC’s new Life series. I hope not though.
Have a lovely evening.
A few out-takes from that film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFy8QkNWWs&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div
Damn clever birds them Lyres.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to trust Sir David again. That’s three strikes now – he’s out of here. (Strange how you can’t really get away with saying “out of here” in an english accent. Unless it’s: “One is trying to sleep, Philip. If you try that again you are out of here.”)
i want to know why Pieman is sleeping with Phil …
Very nice, like the second vid.