yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

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


less than 1m read
·Nov 11, 2024

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 as they fly, so, so fast. 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. Everything about them is really tiny. The smallest hummingbird is like the weight of a dime, and the largest is 20 grams, which is maybe nine dimes stuck 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 buzz, 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.

More Articles

View All
Visual representations of decimal multiplication
So we have here on this number line that we’ve now marked off with the tenths, and you can see that this is three tenths. Here we can think about this as a multiplication of a decimal. And so what is this representing? I’ll give you a hint: it’s represent…
Illusions of Time
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. When something becomes part of the past, can it ever truly be experienced again? Obviously, my beard will grow back, but it won’t be the same beard, and it won’t be on the same person. It will be on a slightly older, different M…
Obligations of citizenship | Citizenship | High school civics | Khan Academy
In this video, we’re going to learn about the obligations of U.S. citizenship. Obligations are actions that citizens are required to fulfill, or they’ll face punishment by law. Unlike the responsibilities of citizenship we talked about in the last video, …
Probability distributions from empirical data | Probability & combinatorics
We’re told that Jada owns a restaurant where customers can make their orders using an app. She decides to offer a discount on appetizers to attract more customers, and she’s curious about the probability that a customer orders a large number of appetizers…
Example of one sides unbounded limits
We’re asked to select the correct description. It looks like all the descriptions deal with what is the limit of f of x as we approach six from either the right-hand side or from the left-hand side. So let’s think about that. First, let me just do the le…
Fourier coefficients for sine terms
Many videos ago we first looked at the idea of representing a periodic function as a set of weighted cosines and sines, as a sum, as the infinite sum of weighted cosines and sines. Then we did some work in order to get some basics in terms of some of the…