February 16, 2007
Dog sings ringtones
According to Ananova, a Chinese woman claims her pet dog can 'sing' along with mobile phone ringtones.
Mrs Zhang, of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, says 14-month-old Dangdang picked up the habit a year ago. "I was in the kitchen and my mobile phone rang in the sitting room. Then I heard Dangdang making a series of strange sounds, which was exactly in the rhythm of the music. "He stopped when I picked up the phone," she told Xi'an Evening Papers.
Sound crazy? In 2001 a German ornithologists claimed that birds had learnt to imitate ring tones as sparrows in his garden were chirping the Nokia classic tone and in 2005, The Houston Chornicle, in an article on our feathered friends, wrote that males birds dance, posture, bluff and sings note from ringtones or doorbells - all part of an elaborate routine to convince females of male prowess.
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