They hover often, and also fly upside down and backwards. These hummingbirds have extremely short legs, so they cannot walk or even hop with any efficiency. Ruby-throated hummingbirds live in ...

A mere win is pretty good. A win-win situation is even better, but a win-win-win resulting from gorgeous flowers that attract hummingbirds and butterflies (and, usually, bees) seems just plain greedy.

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(Sources: Victor Ortega-Jimenez and Robert Dudley, UC Berkeley; Doug Altshuler, University of British Columbia, Vancouver) Letting hummingbirds loose in wind tunnels allows researchers to probe ...