Birds mimicing mobile phone ringtones

[RichL]

I've heard birds imitating car alarms and simple phone ringtones before but I've yet to hear the Nokia tune being whistled.
However according to a story linked by the Inquirer, birds in Germany have begun imitating the ringtones of urban German's mobile phones, including the dreaded Crazy Frog. (wether they grow mullets and moustaches to match remains to be seen...)

If this catches on, Hitchcock's The Birds is going to seem tame by comparison!

[Dr Mordrid]

I can just hear it now: house wrens whistling "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Dr. Mordrid

[spadnos]

A friend told me a funny story about a pet bird.

The family went away on vacation, and left their pet (parrot, I think) behind. Someone went to care for it, but it was mostly alone in the house. This was an old bird, and it didn't groom itself very well. When they got home after a couple of weeks, they noticed that the bird would let out a loud "EEP" every once in a while. Apparently, their fire alarm had a low battery while they were gone, and the bird learned the annoying "replace battery" beep from it.

Imagine this old, ungroomed bird sitting on a perch just beeping once in a while.

- Steve

[Dr Mordrid]

Sounds like some people I know

Better yet are those people I know who own Minah birds. Damned thigns don't seem to learn "normal" words, but they learn every single curse word they hear

Dr. Mordrid

[Nowhere]

That sure tells something about vocabulary of owners


On news: I can see historians in 200 years, thinking that mimicking voices of birds in wild was popular among phone users

[Technoid]

The birds around my apartment learned the sound of my alarm clock, one morning I almost got crazy trying to turn off the clock before realising that the damn birds was making the sound and not my clock

[TnT]

The birds around my apartment learned the sound of my alarm clock, one morning I almost got crazy trying to turn off the clock before realising that the damn birds was making the sound and not my clock

LMAO. I can just imagine slamming on the alarm until it's beaten to bits and staring at it with half open eyes wondering how it could still be beeping.

[Nowhere]

Better than the opposite...(I've learned once to turn off my alarm clock practically while still in sleep; on numerous ocasions I woke up too late, my clock was silent...but I didn't remember turning noise off )