Lyrebirds dance to their own music

In mating display, male birds match moves to songs

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Lyrebirds are famous for the mimicked sounds they sing, but they now have another claim to fame: They dance to their own songs.

“Just as we waltz to waltz music but we salsa to salsa music, so lyrebirds perform different dance movements to different types of songs,” says Anastasia Dalziell of the Australian National University in Canberra.