following live meerkats. He said that he had anecdotal evidence that the fork-tailed drongo would sometimes mimic the predator alarm calls of meerkats while they were foraging and then swoop down ...

On the plains of Africa, you’ll find a surprising cooperation between two typically adversarial animals—the drongo bird and the meerkat. As banks increase their risk appetite, which they have ...

8. The Forked-Tail Drongo Mimics Meerkat Calls. The African drongo scavenges for food by tricking other animals into abandoning their hard-earned meals with carefully crafted calls that imitate ...

One clever African bird called the forked-tailed drongo has evolved the ability to mimic the calls of other species, including other types birds and meerkats. When the drongo spots a coveted tasty ...

Among the rolling red dunes of the Kalahari Desert, the song of the fork-tailed drongo provides a warning ... as well as mammals like meerkats. Scientists tracked 64 forked-tailed drongos over ...

A little black bird perched on a bush nearby suddenly utters a frantic chi-chi call, sending the meerkats scrambling for cover. That’s a fork-tailed drongo sounding the alarm, after spotting an ...

For starlings and meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, the fork-tailed drongo, a songbird with glossy black feathers and garnet-red eyes, is like the neighborhood dog: a trustworthy pal that's always ...

Johannesburg - The African bird, the drongo, has proven itself something of a trickster in its ploy to steal food from species like meerkats, a UCT researcher said on Thursday. "The drongo deceives ...

A drongo picks his victims, a gang of meerkats digging their breakfast - worms - out of the ground. It gains their trust by alerting them to an eagle on the hunt. So when the small bird sounds a ...

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 ...