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Echo can cry exactly like a human baby. 🐦
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Animal OdditiesSep 28, 2026

Echo can cry exactly like a human baby. 🐦

Echo can cry exactly like a human baby. 🐦 . . . In 2021, keepers at Sydney's Taronga Zoo filmed the 7-year-old lyrebird reproducing a baby's 3-part wail. He had apparently memorized the sound before the zoo's COVID-19 closure. The crying infant was actually a bird showing off.

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The Guardian, 2021, 'Australian lyrebird Echo mimics crying baby at Sydney's Taronga zoo'

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