Pollinators

Hummingbird, green on bright green

Do hummingbirds sleep during the day? “Hummingbirds find a nice and sheltered place at night, and they latch onto a branch with their tiny feet, and then they go to sleep. Some of them ... use a strategy called torpor, where they can lower the amount of energy they use by about 85 percent. They do this by basically shutting down a bunch of their bodily functions—they allow their body to get cold as the night gets colder. Humans spend a lot of energy keeping our bodies warm so everything functions normally.”

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