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To: afrayem onigwecher who wrote (11061)	2/7/2003 3:28:42 PM
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Flipper exposed as a fraud By PHILLIP COOREY in New York 08feb03 dailytelegraph.news.com.au FORTY years after he first graced our screens, Flipper is being exposed as a fraud. The chattering noise the dolphin made was, in fact, made by a kookaburra. One US nature expert reckons it could be the biggest soundtrack swindle since a lion's roar was used for King Kong in 1933. The Flipper deception is being revealed by tour guides at the Baltimore National Aquarium, who explain to the centre's 1.6 million annual visitors that dolphins don't have vocal chords. "They are pretty shocked," said the aquarium's Jennifer Durkin, when asked how visitors take the news. "But dolphins don't have any vocal chords. Nothing comes out of the mouth at all. "[Flipper's makers] heard the kookaburra and it sounded cool so they dubbed that. Now people think dolphins can talk." Ms Durkin explains the "squawking and squeaking" noises dolphins really make come from the blowhole. But the "talking" revelation has lifted the lid on decades of widespread misuse of the kookaburra's laugh. Nature writer and author Robert Winkler said the kookaburra, native only to Australia, was one of the most misrepresented birds in Hollywood. "Sound editors decided the kookaburra's laugh went with jungle scenery," he said. "Every American knows the kookaburra from jungle scenes usually in B-films."

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