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Benji Jones @ Vox · 06/10/2025 14:34 EDT

You might accidentally be killing hummingbirds

Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And luckily for them, they don’t seem to get diabetes, even though they have extremely high blood glucose levels.   In the wild, hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, get […]

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