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Hummingbird (Original Post) Donkees Mar 2024 OP
Beautiful Roy Rolling Mar 2024 #1
Hummingbirds can keep their heads steady while hovering Donkees Mar 2024 #2
Wow! 2naSalit Mar 2024 #3
Can't wait for our hummingbirds to return Best_man23 Mar 2024 #4
🌺 Donkees Mar 2024 #5

Roy Rolling

(7,189 posts)
1. Beautiful
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 03:34 AM
Mar 2024

Slowing down nature to a single moment is breathtakingly awesome. Those wings are flapping at 70-80 times per second.

At the opposite end of dog years, I wonder what life looks like for an entity sampling reality at such a high rate.

Humans must look like slow sloths from a hummingbird’s perspective.

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