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 ...

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 ...

The evolution of the advanced ability to mimic the birdsong of other species, and even sounds heard in the environment, is usually driven by sexual selection. Female superb lyrebirds, for instance, ...

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 ...