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Do Drongo Use Tricks To Steal Food?
Studies were carried out to find how an African bird called drongo use tricks to steal food from their target organisms, by copying the noises (referred to as false alarms) made by these target organisms. The false alarms made by the drongo birds caused the target organisms to flee the spot, which then allowed the drongos to steal their food. There were a total of 51 different types of alarm calls and 6 of those were the original voice calls of the drongos; however 45 of those calls were the voices the drongos copied off other species, including target species. How the drongo birds benefit from producing so many different alarm types remains unknown. It was later found that as the target organisms have heard the same false alarm several times,

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