Charles Darwin sized up the manakin in The Descent of Man. In his 1871 account of the bird, he wrote: “The diversity of the sounds … and the diversity of the means for producing such ...
Per Cornell Lab's Birds of the World website, the species is also sometimes referred to as a chestnut mannikin or ...
Related: Floating Mannequin Limbs Mistaken for Human Bodies ... reported was a hand — were dropped into the schoolyard by a bird at about 10:30 a.m. local time, before they were discovered ...