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Aphrodite -Erte

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Gustave Caillebotte - Cliffs by the Sea at Trouville

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Ranger Dave is using two hands to count down to Outside Lands 2014!!!

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Keep inspiring, Bassnectar!  :D  #bassnectar - from emilycolenemiller

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Prince George vs. Great Granny

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Lena Yastreb; Acrylic 2012 Painting “Inevitability”

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Branches Of An Almond Tree In Blossom (Artist Interpretation in Red), 1890

by Vincent Van Gogh

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Some facts about Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are unique amongst birds because of their small size (2 - 20 g or 0.07 - 0.7 oz ). 

With the exception of insects, hummingbirds have the highest metabolism rate of any animal on earth: elevated average body temperature (approx. 40° C or 104° F), rapid heart rate (up to 1,260 beats per minute), and high breathing rate.

They also have the largest brain (4.2% of the total body weight), the largest heart and the largest breast and flight muscles (30% of its total body mass) in proportion to body size than any other bird

Hummingbirds are the only living birds that can rotate its wings in a circle, allowing it to fly both forwards and backwards; fly up or down, move sideways, or hover in one spot.

Like other birds, they have no sense of smell.

Their feet are weak and are only used perching.

In the photo a White-chinned Sapphire, Hylocharis cyanus (Apodiformes - Trochilidae), a South American hummingbird species that is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, where it is mostly sedentary (non-migratory). 

References: [1] - [2]

Photo credit: ©Almir Cândido de Almeida

Locality: Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil