Hummingbirds are always on the verge of death from starvation Bashny.Net

Despite the fact that this tiny bird awake all the time busy collecting nectar and can eat per day twice its own weight, it is always in a few hours from starvation.

Hummingbird made of 12 to 80 strokes of the wings in the second. Their heart rate reaches 1260 beats per minute. All this makes the hummingbird animals with incredibly fast metabolism. In order to provide the body with so much energy, you need to digest food very fast! So if hummingbirds stop eating it for a few hours will die of hunger.

via factroom.ru