The famous moonwalking Red-capped manakin (Pipra mentalis)

September 27th, 2006 by mitch (176 Views)

This was featured over at Improbable Research. The general gist is that the male Red-capped manakin will do a very impressive moonwalk to attract the females. Unfortunately, for the biologist, she didn’t make it to David Bradley’s top 10. Here is a screen cap of the bird. And here is a link to the video: bird moonwalk.

Mitch

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