New high-speed videos of hummingbirds overturn nearly two centuries of conventional wisdom on how they drink.
Researchers previously thought tube-like channels in their tongues sucked up fluid by capillary action. But the new analysis shows that their tongues actually trap nectar by curling around it.
Via WIRED
Nice vid, did not expect that at all, not that I had any preconception of how Humming birds drank, i assumed they just suck. Actually if anyone cares to explain the video better, I don’t think I comprehended what I saw, doh. So it has a tongue like thing, and it closes and grabs the nectar, like a cat or dog also laps up water?
Thank you, I really enjoyed seeing that close up (-:
Wow. Thanks Derren