1. Dolphins have a remarkable capacity for vocal mimicry, and they learn to imitate sounds very accurately and quickly. 2. He has a unique ability to imitate any sound he has heard. 3. Parrots have an advantage over and above chimpanzees in that they can, of course, imitate human sounds. 4. Andrew W.K. imitates the sound of a plunking piano as he goes into an excitable riff about the instrument. 5. Birds can imitate sounds to some extent, but not with the kind of specific individual signatures that dolphins produce. 6. -- imitating the sound of a train hurtling along the tracks. 7. A device used in war games to imitate the sound of artillery reportedly caused the explosion. 8. Breese also knows firsthand the difficulty of learning another language by imitating sounds. 9. But to make a living he turned to the jazz and rhythm-and-blues circuit, stretching his voice to imitate the sounds of honking tenor saxophonists. 10. He loves imitating the sound of them. |