tags: King Bird of Paradise, Cicinnurus regius, Red-Capped Manakin, Yellow-Thighed Manakin, Pipra mentalis, courtship displays, behaviors, birds, ornithology, Kim Bostwick, streaming video
I recently showed you the oddly shaped iridescent tail plume from a King Bird of Paradise as the daily mystery bird, now watch this video to see how the birds use these plumes in courtship displays.
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It's hard to believe that just over fifty years ago psychology was in the firm grip of behaviorism, which denied any semblance of intelligence or emotion in animals. (They were just biological machines.) Talk of anything but stimulus and reward was just sentimental pseudoscience.
tags: dancing bird, Wire-tailed manakin,
I saw this video on another blog and was going to forward to you.
I remember this video from a while back, the most astonishing part being the "moonwalking" of the Golden-headed (Yellow-thighed) Manakin, Pipra erythrocephala- extraordinary!