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Show .Animal and Bird Voices Mistaken for Human Cry A number of birds and animals have almost human cries. Sometimes Some-times at night, you may hear what you think is a baby crying outside. You go to investigate, but can find no one, observes a writer in the Montreal Herald. The cry is repeated, re-peated, and you go out again, to discover at length that an owl is making it. The cry of a kittiwake, a sea bird, is very similar to the voice of a tired child whining: "Get awayl Get away!" The laughing-jackass makes a noise almost identical with that of a crowd of boys thoroughly enjoying enjoy-ing themselves; you know what that is! The whip-poor-will got its name from its constant repetition of thosa three syllables; and the more-pork, a native of Australia, is named from the same reason, it loudly and vehemently demanding "more pork." If you have heard a night-jar you will know its dismal note, a real cry of distress. In India there is a crow which laughs just like a human being, be-ing, j The seal has a very human way of lamenting the loss or capture of its young while the cry of a wounded wound-ed hare is as full of tragedy as the appeal of a child in sore trouble. |