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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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| Publicado en: | Proc Biol Sci |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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The Royal Society
2015
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| Acceso en liña: | 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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