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Published online 28 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050725-11
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Courting bird sings like a cricket
The manakin makes swiftest known movement in vertebrates.
A bird that lives in the Ecuadorian rain forest attracts mates by striking its wing feathers together behind its back, researchers say.
Birds and other vertebrates usually court partners by expelling air to produce sound.
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