Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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Biologist Rico-Guevara and his colleagues teamed up with a mechanical engineer to study hummingbird feeding using high-speed video cameras. They built transparent artificial flowers so the cameras could see what was happening inside the flower, set up lights and cameras, and waited.

Read the full story here: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/video-hummingbird-tongues-act-like-tiny-pumps

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Credit: Rico-Guevara Alejandro, Fan Tai-Hsi and Rubega Margaret A. Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps282Proc. R. Soc. B. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1014

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