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Hummingbird tongues are elastic micropumps

Pumping is a vital natural process, imitated by humans for thousands of years. We demonstrate that a hitherto undocumented mechanism of fluid transport pumps nectar onto the hummingbird tongue. Using high-speed cameras, we filmed the tongue–fluid interaction in 18 hummingbird species, from seven of...

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Izdano u:Proc Biol Sci
Glavni autori: Rico-Guevara, Alejandro, Fan, Tai-Hsi, Rubega, Margaret A.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: The Royal Society 2015
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Online pristup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632618/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26290074
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1014
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