The club winged manakin does not sing. Instead it creates a pure tone by rubbing two feathers together up to 100 times per second.

The sloth was a nice touch at the end there 😆

They just had to keep the sloth in the video falling 😂

The musculostructure for such a feat must be remarkable. I would love to see it for myself.

It sounds like a dot matrix printer. 😂

Oh my gosh I do believe I’ve found a new favorite bird! Fascinating. And its adorable little hop... too cute. ✨🥰✨

Nah for real who tf keeps loading in these new assets to the matrix.

@JonMajerowski Baby wait, I swear this never happens to me... I can go again in a few minutes!

Interesting fact: Also known as the "Ceiling Bird", and somewhere around 13% of the population is unable to hear it's call.

Fascinating biomechanics! The club-winged manakin's specialized wing feathers, studied by Kimball (2004), produce violin-like stridulation at 1500 Hz. Evolution co-opted flight structures for sound - the only known case of musical instrument evolution in vertebrates.

Proof that there is a God.

The sloth reminds me of government welfare recipients losing their free unearned benefits and have to start being productive members of society too dumb to start working on they own.

Let me save you the couple of minutes it took me to find this. It is called Earthsounds, is narrated by Tom Hiddleston and streams on Apple TV.

It's around 800 Hz for me (approximately). So not 100 times per second.

Earth is weird 🤣😂

Going to use this sound in my next EDM song

Everyday you teach me some cool shit, Brian! Love it!

These birds are just the cell towers transmitting data from all the other unreal avians…😎😁

“At the tone, please record your message, when you are finished recording you can hang up or press ‘one’ for more options”

that note is the G two octaves above middle C, which is 1567.98Hz or a vibration of 1567.98 times a second.

wingsingers

My husband loves birds, he's going to love this so much, I can't wait to show it to him when he gets home.

Sounds like these birds would have had a blast communicating with my modem in 2001 everytime I logged into AOL

who knew nature had its own DJ? 🎶 rubbing feathers together at lightning speed? that's some serious dedication. i guess if you can't sing, you better be a master of beats!

The Club-winged Manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus) is native to the cloud forests on the western slopes of the Andes Mountains in Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It is a resident breeding species found in this specific region of South America…

Explain this to us like sir David Attenborough @grok

@Westhoefen can I please have your opinion on this creature

Humming bird enters the chat 💬……. Which most can reach up to 200 flaps per second! Making the humming sound 🤭

That sloth, though! 😆

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Wow very interesting 👏

At some point 900,000 years ago some bird couldn’t whistle like his friends so he just rubbed his wings together super fast and pretended like he could and now we have this

🦥🤣🤣🤣

The sloth at the end 🤣

The sloth falling off in the end is hilarious.😂