LAUGHING DOVE(Spilopelia senegalensis)Colombo, D. 2012. “Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensi
LAUGHING DOVE(Spilopelia senegalensis)Colombo, D. 2012. “Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) in the Kgalagadi Transforntier National Park - South Africa”Now, I couldn’t tell you if the laughing dove has a much of a sense of humour, but I can tell you that the name was inspired by their call, sounding rather like a person giggling. In aviculture, they are more often referred to as Senegal doves as the multiple dove species are known to produce sounds resembling human laughter (most notably the African collared dove and its domesticated form, the Barbary dove). -- source link
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