Comments on: Mimicry — It’s Not a Laughing Matter http://www.ocellated.com/2006/04/10/mimicry-its-not-a-laughing-matter/ A blog on nature, science, religion, and just about anything else I want to post on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:05:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Kelley http://www.ocellated.com/2006/04/10/mimicry-its-not-a-laughing-matter/#comment-397 Kelley Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:03:38 +0000 http://www.ocellated.com/2006/04/10/mimicry-its-not-a-laughing-matter/#comment-397 We have the same audio system out here for the crosswalks, and while we have N. Mockingbirds (a plenty), it is actually the stupid starlings that will mimic the sound. They even sit on the lights or on the sidewalk next to it and make the sound...little buggers. Other people, not just the deaf, have become used to associating the sound with the ability to cross the street...it is kind of funny to see how confused those people can get when they hear the sound, but see no flashing light and still have cars going. Now the N. Mockingbirds here have managed to mimic cell phone rings. I have seen this happen a hand full of times..but a groups of students will be walking to and from class and just so happen to walk beneath a perched mockingbird, when all of the sudden you hear a cell phone ring...it is really funny to see how many of the students check their phones, all the while it was the bird sitting in the tree to the side of them. We have the same audio system out here for the crosswalks, and while we have N. Mockingbirds (a plenty), it is actually the stupid starlings that will mimic the sound. They even sit on the lights or on the sidewalk next to it and make the sound…little buggers. Other people, not just the deaf, have become used to associating the sound with the ability to cross the street…it is kind of funny to see how confused those people can get when they hear the sound, but see no flashing light and still have cars going.

Now the N. Mockingbirds here have managed to mimic cell phone rings. I have seen this happen a hand full of times..but a groups of students will be walking to and from class and just so happen to walk beneath a perched mockingbird, when all of the sudden you hear a cell phone ring…it is really funny to see how many of the students check their phones, all the while it was the bird sitting in the tree to the side of them.

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