tags: slow motion, streaming video
I've linked to streaming videos of moonwalking male manakin (birds) before, but it is so amazing that I had to share two more links with you (the first one of these videos of the moonwalking manakins is the extended version, and both are new links to this site). Includes music by Michael Jackson [3:28 & 1:50]
Yet another video of these birds that you will enjoy [1:50];
GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist has written a blog about science since 4 August 2004 (the early years are archived 




















Comments
Goodness, it's an Aracuan bird! :-)
And I really like Ms Boswick's [sp?] rendition of the dance...
Posted by: kai | December 20, 2007 9:42 AM
Really? Because Ms. Boswick's rendition of the dance actually kind of freaks me out.
Posted by: Andrew | December 21, 2007 10:38 AM
Hey Devorah-
I showed the first of these manakin videos to my sociobio class when I introduced the concept of sexual selection. The whole class laughed uproariously. It was great. Thanks for sharing!
-L
Posted by: lisa | January 21, 2008 9:15 PM