You can't fool all of the species all of the time. Or can you? Biologists have found a bird in Africa that does an amazingly good job of fooling other species, time and time again, by varying the ...

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 ...

A group of meerkats frolic on the sands of the Kalahari desert. 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 ...

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 ...