- Ekanjaratraf-Harshalpuskarna
- Impersonators of the bird world passing off the vocal 'Aadhaar card' of innocent birds and animals for sinful stomachs and to increase the hierarchy.
It was a few years ago. An English naturalist named Laura Kelly, who came to study the ecology of the state of Queensland, Australia, went for a walk in the park behind her house one evening. There was total silence all around. Suddenly the sound of 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...Bonnie!...' came from somewhere. The owner of the house Kelly had invested in had a cat named Bonnie. When it was meal time, the owner would call the cat with the address 'Bonnie!... Bonnie!...'. So Kelly assumed instinctively that the sudden voice in the stillness must be the landlord's. But surprise! Glancing here and there, neither the owner of the building appears nor the plain closing name of 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...Bonnie!...'.
Laura Kelly's eyes scanned the area around the house with great eagerness and curiosity. Finally the source of Saad was caught. Not on the ground, but on a tree branch! A 300 cm bird with yellow chest, brown head and brown wings called out 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...'. Being a naturalist, Laura Kelly immediately recognized it: the Spotted Bowerbird!
About 27 species of bowerbird occur in Australia. The name bower/ bowerbird is due to the special engineering art of building a bow/ arched nest on the ground with dry twigs of trees. The spotted bower that Laura Kelly has seen is a formidable mimicry artist. He knows how to imitate the sounds of 16 birds like wild crow, eagle, dyad, lelan or laleda, Australian kookaburra, latoro. Apart from this, he can give the sound effects of breaking a dry branch, trampling of leaves under the feet of animals, cutting wood with an electric saw called chain-saw, flapping of wings of a flying bird, chirping of children in his own voice.
The Spotted Bowerbird's answer is no to copying a human's voice. That's why after hearing the sound of 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...Bonnie!...' repeated from the mouth of the house owner, that copycat bird learned to imitate the sound on a copy-paste basis. How many times must the poor Bonnie cat have come looking for food after listening to that misleading invitation and not getting food, 'Chat! What handsome owners have been found!' As if turning back with a sigh.
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After reading the above incident, the question arises in the mind, who could have taught the Spotted Bowerbird to fool the cat by falsely calling 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...'?
Answer: The genetic blueprint given by his ancestors!
Then who would have made the ancestors into mimicry artists?
Answer: The invisible teacher called natural circumstances!
According to many ornithologists, the Spotted Bowerbird did not have the talent to imitate different sounds in the not too distant past. Rather, she used to chirp in her original voice in One-Wagda. The ancestors of the present Spotted Bowerbird must have at some point believed that mimicking the sounds of other organisms would help them find or avoid prey. Hence, it became impossible for them to override the sound 'adhar card' status of other organisms according to the circumstances.
To understand how useful an 'adhar card' like Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchan Hai can be in certain situations, let's take the example of Drongo/ Kalio Koshi, the number one impostor bird. There are 30 species of drongos in Asia and Africa, of which the racket-tailed (with a tail shaped like a badminton racket) and the fork-tailed (with a fork-shaped tail for food) drongos are very playful. Both these artists know how to perfectly imitate the sounds of 55 birds.
Black in color and unafraid of the Kala Kaua while lying, the chatter of the Fork-tailed Drongo of Africa is worth noting here. Meerkats live in the Kalahari region of Africa by establishing underground colonies. Being a gregarious animal, the meerkat does all the work together. Fork-tailed drongos are constantly trailing when their herds go out in search of food. Like the police chasing the thief! Of course, at one point the roles of thief-police change.
Fork-tailed drongos start sounding alarm bells as the meerkat herds find food (in the form of lizards and insects) and yet the meerkat pangat begins a mass feast. An alarm signal for meerkats, 'Run for dear life! A hunting eagle has arrived in the sky.
The herd quickly disperses to escape the eagle, which sweeps the meerkat in its sharp claws in a single swoop. Takes shelter by digging a hole in the ground with the front foot. As soon as the ground is clear, Drongos leave tree branches and scavenge such food on the ground. This food is basically the Meerkat's hard work, but the crazy Drongo fills his stomach! In English this is called klepto-parasitism. If you say in pure Gujarati, it is white robbery to eat other people's food!
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The logic that lying makes it easier to get food was the logic that had sunk into the Fork-tailed Drongo's mind many years ago. Hence, even though the eagle of prey has not yet arrived in the sky, it sounds a false alarm by telling such a roaring lie. Drongo's sins are not limited to a sinful stomach. If the pit of the stomach is not enough, that false bird is not ashamed to talk again.
As soon as the underground meerkats come out and grab some more prey, the drongos turn around and sound the warning alarm of the eagle's arrival. But where is the meerkat also less tender? As if he had learned the lesson of not going that way, even if it is robbery, instead of turning a blind eye in the name of a stampede, he looks at the sky. Ensure that the sub is safe, so you can enjoy your meal with peace of mind.
Seeing the thrown (or fancology) dice falling upside down, the Drongo sounded a louder warning alarm saying, 'Brother, get out of here!' But who listens to his lies now? And then Drongo plays the order card. This card stands for 'Aadhaar Card' which sounds like 'Aadhaar Card'. Sitting on a branch of a tree, the Drongo began to hiss threateningly in the meerkat's voice. The sound that the meerkat makes to warn its fellows when the eagle arrives is exactly the same! Hearing the voice of the member of his brotherhood, all the meerkats brightened up and said, 'Hey Bhailog! Yeh to apun ke hi bhai ki awaaz hai... "Pick up!" That's it, then at six o'clock all the meerkats and their ready meals are at the drongos!
In the game of dhapbaji, a gappodio player (to win the trust of the opponent) sometimes throws two or four true cards among the false cards. The African fork-tailed drongo adopts a somewhat similar strategy. Meerkats often give true warnings of approaching eagles or other predators in order to maintain their confidence. Meerkats believe that Drongos are Dingamaru, but they are not completely wrong.
Animals such as the African drongo monkey and birds such as the lleda are also slipped into foreign possessions by the sound tricks of other organisms. He has become so addicted to eating what is served that he has learned to imitate the sounds of as many animals and birds as possible. To a lesser extent, the same is the case with the Spotted Bowerbird of Australia, which was discussed at the beginning of the article. It has become his nature to mimic the sounds of a bird, from the hum of an electric saw to words like 'Bonnie!...Bonnie!...' uttered by the landlord.
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One purpose of copying another organism's voice is to fill the stomach, another is to advance the hierarchy. See the lengths to which the dramatic Lyrebird goes to achieve this second purpose. Hence the name lyrebird as the curved tail is shaped like a lyre/western harp. But given the skill of gossiping, instead of lyre, call him liar.
Nature has endowed the male lyrebird with a beautiful tail, the feathers of which open like a performing peacock to woo the female lyrebird. The male-female mating ceremony is dramatic reminiscent of a romantic Hindi film. For example, in the first stage of mating, the male lyrebird sends a message to the female with a melodious song like 'Awaaz de kahaan hai'. A female sitting somewhere far away 'main yaha; If he gives a reply like Tu kaha' then the first thread of union is established. Both the lovebirds heard each other's voice and finally came face to face, when the female immediately did not give away her heart. Rather, he first checks the merits of the idol standing before him. Muratio also starts a show of dancing and singing in front of the female by opening his tail feathers to prove his worth. A female usually gets excited after watching a male dance show, but sometimes she flirts like a Hindi film heroine and walks away.
At such times the male lyrebird passes the 'adhar card' of the sounds of other organisms. Natural enemies of lyrebirds are birds like hawks, eagles, wild dogs, rani cats, monitor lizards, giant kachindas, etc. Male lyrebirds make their calls to stop the female—and the female stops at that false alarm bell. Rather, he feels that he will be safe in Murtia's presence. Such an invisible thread of emotion ultimately serves as the sunder of the mundane bond of male-female. In short, the hierarchy of lyrebirds moves forward. Lyrebirds have learned the mimicry of 37 different types of sounds as a way to woo a female. Some of these sounds are helpful in finding food, while others are helpful in avoiding becoming food.
Nature's unwritten rule of thumb for living creatures is to eat or be eaten—and if you survive, move up the hierarchy! In order to maintain this balance, nature has given each living being a special gift. One of the most common is lying by mimicking another's voice, which has been found in many other birds such as spotted bowerbirds, drongos and lyrebirds. A card of order for sustaining life and extending life A bird who plays the right way at the right time wins the battle of life. Nahitar, Ram Ram! What subtle games even nature plays silently!■
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