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Chinese ventriloquist can imitate 50 different bird sounds!


Byline: ANI

New Delhi New Delhi (dĕl`ē), city (1991 pop. 294,149), capital of India and of Delhi state, N central India, on the right bank of the Yamuna River. , Jun 19 (ANI): A Chinese ventriloquist has developed the skill to imitate the sounds of 50 different birds.

Xu Mingfu, 53, who first learned ventriloquism ventriloquism: see puppet.
ventriloquism

Art of “throwing” one's voice in such a way that the sound seems to come from a source other than the speaker.
 five years ago in Beijing, likes to imitate birds and he is even trying to follow their eating habits, reports China Daily.

And he spends three hours each day to practice the chirping chirp  
n.
A short, high-pitched sound, such as that made by a small bird or an insect.

intr.v. chirped, chirp·ing, chirps
To make a short, high-pitched sound.
 sounds of various birds.

He has also stopped eating meat in order to keep his voice pure, and revealed that he also likes to amuse people. (ANI)

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