Hummingbird tongues are super weird. They are so long that wh...  ...times a second. In 1833, scientists proposed that hummingbirds drink by capillary action, but that has been disp...  ...evara set out to study the exact mechanics of how hummingbirds drink. That involved buildi...

Swiss geologist Dr. Melanie Barboni is doing a fel...  ...Space Science program. She is also known as "the hummingbird whisperer."Every weekday, Barboni welcomes clouds...  ...’t feed them in a timely manner, the miffed hummingbirds will fly into her office to “yell at me. &h...  ...t on her fingers....

Hummingbirds flap their wings about 50 times per second, so al...  ...ional Geographic mounted a high-speed camera on a hummingbird feeder to get some incredible footage of the tiny...  ...as wind and rain. Keep watching, and you'll see a hummingbird bird shake the drops of wate...

Hummingbirds are tiny dynamos that expend so much energy that...  ...nly certain insects have a higher metabolism. And hummingbirds can live for years. So how do they deal with cold...  ...ooming flowers to provide nectar?In cold weather, hummingbird bodies enter into an "energy...

The award-winning short film Hum is the story of a robot, busy with his assigned purpose of washing dishes, when a tiny intruder opens his eyes to the larger world outside the four walls of the kitchen. The robot's epiph...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8iChtGaNdU](Vide...  ...kindness. He brought Gernon's attention to a sick hummingbird , lying on the ground and covered with ants.The pa...

This amazing clockwork automaton is called Colibri...  ...designing and aligning gears and levers so that a hummingbird appears to approach a flower, drink nectar, then...  ...n fly away. Hugger based his design on how actual hummingbirds move and spent about 700 hours getting the approx...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzMIbvsFyC0] (Vid...  ...ww.youtube.com/watch?v=FzMIbvsFyC0] (Video Link)A hummingbird can hover in place in a strong wind, remaining st...  ...in order to improve drone design. So they placed hummingbirds in a wind tunnel. They found that hummingbirds...

Joao Silvestrini is an older man who lives in Braz...  ...il, and every single day like clockwork, he has a hummingbird fly into his house for a snack. He decides to tak...  ...e a life where our open windows bring us adorable hummingbird companions for daily visits. [https://www.youtube...  ...nk)If this ever h...

A few days ago, John Farrier showed Neatorama read...  ...Farrier showed Neatorama readers what a flock of hummingbirds looks like. This is what exquisite macros of hummingbirds — specifically, Green-crowned Brilliants (H...  ...shots on vacation in Costa Rica. A close-up of a hum...