How Hummingbirds Feed
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For almost two centuries, scientists just accepted that hummingbirds drank nectar using their tongues like straws, but they never did an actual observation until now. In reality, hummingbirds fringe open their tongues in the nectar to capture the nectar and close their tongue back up upon retraction.
http://today.uconn.edu/?p=34185
For almost two centuries, scientists just accepted that hummingbirds drank nectar using their tongues like straws, but they never did an actual observation until now. In reality, hummingbirds fringe open their tongues in the nectar to capture the nectar and close their tongue back up upon retraction.
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