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The Forked Tailed Drongo steals food by imitating others.
The forked tailed drongo bird of Africa — quite the trickster — imitates multiple species’ warning calls to scare off other animals and steal their food, a study published on Thursday revealed.
The birds often use their own danger alert to trick their fellow bird and beast into abandoning a meal, but researchers were puzzled why animals…