You can't fool all of the species all of the time. Or can you? Biologists have found a bird in Africa that does an amazingly good job of fooling other species, time and time again, by varying the ...

The fork-tailed drongo is known for its deceptiveness in the animal kingdom – the bird has exceptional mimetic capabilities and is not afraid to use them. In this clip from the BBC TV series Africa, ...

Real-life masters of the art of false alarms don’t keep crying wolf. Shrieking multiple fake danger signals lets a bird keep its scams going. When food gets scarce, African birds called fork-tailed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drongo birds use false alarm calls to trick meerkats into dropping food so they can steal it. Meerkats rely on drongo warning ...

An African bird is an accomplished impressionist, scientists say. Mimicking distress and alarm sounds of other animals to trick them into abandoning their food, which the bird then claims as its own.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forked-tail drongo is shown perched in Kuruman River Reserve in South Africa in 2008 in this image courtesy of Tom Flower. REUTERS ...

Late last year, I wrote about a bird called the rocket-tailed drongo and, in response to a comment, I noted the following: “Drongos are notorious thieves and mimics. In South Africa, I spent a morning ...

Meerkats have come to rely on the call of the drongo bird to alert them when danger is nearby. In return, the bird gets to snatch up the food left behind by the meerkats in their haste to escape. It’s ...