If you believe honesty is the best policy, you would have a hard time convincing the fork-tailed drongo. This tricky African bird is the pathological liar of the animal kingdom.
Scientists have described how this medium-size bird brazenly deceives other animals by mimicking alarm calls made by numerous bird species — and even meerkats — to warn of an approaching predator in a ruse to frighten them off and steal food they leave behind.
The researchers classify the drongo as "a kleptoparasite."
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