| Levey found that smaller seed size resulted in an increase in number of fruits that could be eaten by manakins, which mainly swallow fruit whole. |
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| Instead of fighting over females, pairs of male lance-tailed manakins team up to court prospective mates. |
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| Male golden-collared manakins clear leaf litter from the ground to form courts, which they then use as arenas for intense courtship displays. |
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| The film captures monkeys in the Nariva wetlands, golden tree frogs housed in bromeliad plants and blue-backed manakins in Tobago. |
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| Other species, such as thrushes and manakins, usually regurgitate the largest seeds they ingest. |
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| Males of over half of the species of manakins produce startling sounds with their wings during courtship displays. |
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| But rather than hovering for a drink, manakins generate finger-snap clicks to entice females. |
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| The manakins vibrate their wings at more than 100 cycles per second, twice the speed of hummingbirds. |
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| An interesting analogy may occur in some manakins in which males are smaller than females. |
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| The most unusual plumage and wing modifications among the 40 or so species of manakins belong to the club-winged manakin, Bostwick told the group. |
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| Mannikins are somewhat similar Old World birds that are more distantly related to manakins. |
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| Watch for manakins, trogons, hawks, and other forest species. |
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| In mature tropical forests, manakins frequently constitute nearly one-third of all birds present. |
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| Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies. |
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| During a courtship display, male club-winged manakins knock their wings above their backs to create sound. |
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| They train on blocks and manakins but there's nothing better than cutting the hair or doing massages and treatments for real people. |
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| Kimberly Bostwick, an ornithologist at Cornell University in New York, studied manakins by using a slow-motion video camera. |
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| Delayed maturation, neoteny, and social system differences in two manakins of the genus Chiroxiphia. |
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| One of my favourite families of birds in the lowland forests of central America are the manakins. |
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| Despite the close relationship to Chiroxiphia, these two manakins are among the few highly dichromatic species that do not have lek mating systems. |
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| In the new bar area at the front, the tone is set by low-level lighting, elegant tan leather chairs and a row of manakins dressed in what looks like Royal Indian dress. |
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| Manakins shake their wings 100 times per second, producing 14 sounds per shake. |
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| Moonwalking Manakins, Cinco Ranch High School, Katy, TX for itsdevice that stimulates an astronaut's heart contractions to reduce atrophy of organs during space travel. |
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