TIL: Hummingbirds Are the World’s Hungriest Birds | Today I Learned

if you were to use energy as quickly as
a hummingbird you’d have to eat a fridge
full of food or about 300 hamburgers
every day in order to survive they use
energy so quickly because they fly so so
fast and a lot of the flowers they feed
on are really delicate and if they were
to perch on them then they would pull
the flower off they have to hover in one
place which is really energy consuming
it’s one of the most energetically
expensive activities in the animal world
I think
so they use energy really really quickly
in order to survive they’re really tiny
the smallest hummingbird is like the
weight of a dime and the largest is 20
grams which is maybe nine dimes stacked
together they don’t have much room to
store fat if you were really heavy with
fat then you wouldn’t be able to fly so
they have to feed on nectar many many
many times during the day if
hummingbirds didn’t have flowers to feed
on they would starve in as little as two
hours so next time you need a snack be
thankful it’s not a life-or-death
situation
all bees buzzed but bumblebees are one
of the very few types of bees that
actually take that buzzing sound and use
it like a secret weapon to get pollen