Birds vs Michael Jackson

September 19, 2005 9:39 AM

Moonwalking birds. This is an awesome video of a Manakin bird doing the Michael Jackson thing.
posted by dov3 (20 comments total)

See also here.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 9:41 AM on September 19, 2005

I find Ms. Bostwick's mating dance to be strangely compelling.
posted by horsewithnoname at 9:54 AM on September 19, 2005

Reminds me of this.

In case of metafilter overload, look here.
posted by lalochezia at 9:56 AM on September 19, 2005

That is the most wonderful and charming thing I have seen in quite a while. Brought such a smile, I'm sorry if it's a repost but you know what.. that original link.. to borrow a gamer phrase, "TLDR", or "Too Long Didnt Read", I would never have seen it. This... this however... Moonwalking!!

Biologists and nature folks have the best dang job.
posted by cavalier at 10:00 AM on September 19, 2005

You know what? I'm an asshole. monju wasn't complaining about a redundant link, he was very helpfulling pointing out an abundant trove of information he himself had posted. I'm sorry monju.
posted by cavalier at 10:03 AM on September 19, 2005

Someone must have been watching Nature last night :).

Just don't call yourself out on MeTa Cavalier and we'll all be good
posted by edgeways at 10:09 AM on September 19, 2005

That was perfect. Just what I needed to perk up a slow Monday afternoon. Thanks to dov3 for linking the "moonwalk" and to monju_bosatsu for the previous post which is full of great information on manakins.
posted by LeeJay at 10:20 AM on September 19, 2005

Realplayer? blah.
posted by delmoi at 10:47 AM on September 19, 2005

Heh, I saw that on PBS last night. I was expecting a lot less...pretty awesome.
posted by furtive at 10:59 AM on September 19, 2005

Darn! I did not know it was a double post.

Yes, I saw it yesterday on PBS and I thought of y'all guys.
posted by dov3 at 11:05 AM on September 19, 2005

Obviously this is evidence of intelligent design.
posted by wfrgms at 11:06 AM on September 19, 2005

Michael Jackson is God.
posted by redteam at 11:10 AM on September 19, 2005

Gotta say, though, that it's more of a James Brown shuffle than an MJ moonwalk.

...which is to say, "better".
posted by LordSludge at 11:22 AM on September 19, 2005

I feel good. I feel better now. I feel better than Kim Bostwick.
posted by hal9k at 11:35 AM on September 19, 2005

The woman in the video looks disturbingly like Weird Al Yankovic.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:10 PM on September 19, 2005

This is just great.
posted by snark9 at 1:27 PM on September 19, 2005

Damn that was cute.
posted by Sully6 at 1:28 PM on September 19, 2005

Frikn heeeeelarious
posted by eener at 4:53 PM on September 19, 2005

This is even better than the Plague in WoW link.
posted by of strange foe at 7:29 AM on September 20, 2005

Actually, that's a backslide, not a moonwalk.
posted by rossmeissl at 9:09 AM on September 20, 2005