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I’m A Celebrity: Jordan leaves campmates in stitches as he tries to imitate Shane’s Cockney accent

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I’m A Celebrity: ‘He’s trying to do a cliché EastEnders character!’ Jordan North leaves his campmates in stitches as he tries to imitate Shane’s Richie’s Cockney accent By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 21:59 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 1 December 2020 Jordan North left his campmates in stitches on Tuesday’s I’m … Read more

Copy cats: Gifted felines can imitate human movements on command even better than some dogs

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Some very clever cats are able to recognise and imitate human actions on command — even better than some dogs — a study has reported.  Hungarian researchers worked with an 11-year-old kitty named Ebisu, who had been taught by her dog-trainer owner to copy her using the so-called ‘do-as-I-do’ method. This is a training regime long-applied … Read more

Boy pushes pencil down his throat to ‘imitate Kung Fu masters’

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Boy pushes a 7-inch pencil down his throat as he tries to ‘imitate Kung Fu masters swallowing swords on TV’ The seven-year-old in China swallowed the sharp pencil while doing homework His parents rushed him to a Henan hospital after the boy confessed the incident X-ray shows the 7-inch pointy object lodged across the young … Read more

Six-month-olds see people who imitate them as more friendly 

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Babies know when you imitate them – and they perceive it as a sign of friendliness, according to a new study. Swedish research suggest the imitation game is an infant’s favourite way of interacting with adults, making them more engaged and likely to approach an adult. In experiments, six-month-old babies looked and smiled longer, and … Read more