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Donkees

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Fri Mar 29, 2024, 03:39 PM Mar 2024

David Attenborough Presents: Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers



This is the story of how hummingbirds became the ultimate creatures of the air.

Hummingbirds live at the limits of what is possible. They have the highest metabolism – with a heart rate of 1,200 beats per minute – of any vertebrate. Their wings beat 50 times a second. They can hover on the spot, and even fly backwards. To our eyes, they are just a blur. But with the aid of high-speed cameras we can slow down their hyperactive lives and look into their secret world.

It is a world of great beauty, full of colour and balletic flight. They are the most remarkable creatures to ever grace our planet. This film, with never-seen-before sequences, reveals them in a new light.
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David Attenborough Presents: Hummingbirds - Jewelled Messengers (Original Post) Donkees Mar 2024 OP
It looks like it will be pretty good, thank you, I bookmarked it Walleye Mar 2024 #1
awesome. pansypoo53219 Mar 2024 #2
That was ... 2naSalit Mar 2024 #3
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