{"id":5574,"date":"2012-05-17T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2012-05-17T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T00:14:15","slug":"the-moonwalking-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/the-moonwalking-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"The moonwalking bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male manakin courting a female is an impressive sight.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Half of the known species use their body parts to make music, but the club-winged manakin is the only one who uses his feathers to generate a sound.\u00a0It isn&#8217;t just about the song either \u2014 the manakin will also dance to impressive a female, using moves such as an about-face, a dart and a backwards slide that closely resembles a Michael Jackson moonwalk.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2012\/05\/manakins\/koeppel-text?source=link_tw20120516ngm-manakin\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male manakin courting a female is an impressive sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,6,10],"tags":[144,853,169,74,205],"class_list":["post-5574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-nature","category-video","tag-birds","tag-conservation","tag-nature-2","tag-science-2","tag-video-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}