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Hummingbird fax:

A hummingbird eats about half of its body weight in sugar daily and may have a meal up to every ten minutes. In eight hours, that bird could have up to forty-eight small meals! A single hummingbird may also consume hundreds of fruit flies a day.

Source: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/hummingbird-foraging

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[–] lurch 30 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I read small mice need to eat at least every 2 hours or they will die because the small body surface to volume ratio is so bad that they lose a lot of heat energy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I work on lab mice. This is incorrect. They can fast for up to 24 hours.

[–] lurch 2 points 10 months ago

No, it's just not true for all mice. Just small ones, like shrews. Check out the section Behavior here, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_pygmy_shrew

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