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Article About Pollinators
Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. Pollinating animals travel from plant to plant carrying pollen on their bodies in a vital interaction…
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Video: Electrostatic charge on hummingbirds and its role in pollination
We found that wild flying hummingbirds have electrostatic charges of up to ~800 pC. Such electrical charges are high enough to produce attraction of floral stamens and floating pollen-size particles.
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Video: Secret of the Hummingbird’s Tongue
Instead of drinking through a straw-like structure, as many insects do, hummingbirds use their tongues’ to lap up nectar. In just a second or so, a hummer can drink up all the liquid a flower has to offer. High-speed macro photography has now revealed how they do it. https://www.pbs.org/video/nature-secret-hummingbirds-tongue/
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Video: From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone| TED
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she describes some of the extraordinary projects — a robotic hummingbird, a prosthetic arm controlled by thought, and, well, the internet — that her agency…
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Video Collection: AskNAture: Biological Strategies of Hummingbirds
This AskNature video collection focuses on the biological strategies and other qualities hummingbirds have developed such as hovering, unique metabolism, efficient tongue pumps, and more. Learn more about the hummingbird and the innovations it inspires in this video resource. https://asknature.org/?s=hummingbirds&page=0&hFR%5Bpost_type_label%5D%5B0%5D=Biological%20Strategies&is_v=1
