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        "description": "<p>Move over, James Brown. When looking for a mate, the male red-capped manakin snaps his wings and dances on a branch to catch a female's eye.</p>", 
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        "title": "World's Weirdest: Birds \"Moonwalk\" to Impress the Ladies", 
        "url": "http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/birds-animals/perching-birds/weirdest-manakin-dance/", 
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                    "url": "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/manakins/laman-photography", 
                    "name": "Manakins Photo Gallery"
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        "credit": "National Geographic", 
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        "transcript": "<p>A bird nerd rarely gets the girl.</p><p>Just ask this avian Casanova-the manakin.</p><p>There are over 50 species of this showy little bird, and they all go full out to court the ladies.</p><p>At breeding time, the brightly colored males stake out a staging area called a lek-the bird equivalent of a singles bar.</p><p>A branch serves as the dance floor.</p><p>The act isn't all snazzy steps.</p><p>Sound is just as important.</p><p>The buzzes, whirrs and snaps may catch a lady's eye, but the noise also warns other males-back off, she's mine.</p><p>And if all else fails, show some leg.</p><p>The competition is so fierce that only alpha males will mate.</p><p>Now that makes online dating look easy.</p>", 
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