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Did You Know?

The bizarre club-winged manakin is a bird that sings with its wings. By rubbing specialised wing feathers together, it produces a unique, violin-like sound to attract mates. This extraordinary ability (a process called stridulation that is mostly associated with leg-rubbing insects such as crickets and grasshoppers) is extremely rare in the bird world.

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Credit: BBC Two - Nature's Weirdest Events

Word Challenge

Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.

Compile a list of words that only use letters found in the word ‘stridulation’.

Example: station – stridualation rations – stridulation

Grammar Challenge

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Proofread and rewrite the sentence below.

the club winged manakin a bird known for its unique ability to produse musical wing sounds inhabits the cloud forrests of south america

Note: Proofreading involves finding and correcting spelling, punctuation and grammar errors.

Number Challenge

In a nature reserve, tourists can listen to the unusual sounds made by club-winged manakins. The entrance fee to the reserve is £12.50 per person.

How much money will the reserve make if 78 people visit it?

Critical Thinking

How important is it to be unique? Why do you think this?

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