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Not actually a cartoon

Mizu — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:33:42 -0800

Snoring Hummingbird (SLYT) Watch closely for sticky-outy tongue!

By: hippybear

hippybear — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:42:29 -0800

I could swear this is a double, but apparently it isn't. I sent the video to my mother several months ago when I first saw it and she fell down a deep well of hummingbird videos. It's probably one of the best things I've ever done for her as her son.

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:43:02 -0800

this is one of the most adorable things i have ever seen

By: figurant

figurant — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:53:56 -0800

I thought they slept upside down and basically didn't detectably breath. That is thoroughly cute.

By: Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:54:52 -0800

Humming Snoringbird.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:57:30 -0800

Coming up next: the world's tiniest CPAP machine.

By: zagyzebra

zagyzebra — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:57:33 -0800

How'd they get this hummingbird to sleep inside that white contraption?

By: hippybear

hippybear — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:02:01 -0800

It's a contraption which measures the amount of oxygen the bird is using. I have no idea how they got it to sleep in there, but they did. And they did it for science!

By: Rora

Rora — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:30:44 -0800

come on now nothing this cute can possibly be real

By: Rora

Rora — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:32:29 -0800

Aaaand just saw the header/title. But I still maintain this is too cute to be real.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:38:03 -0800

Cute, but snoring doormouse is still cuter.

By: DoctorFedora

DoctorFedora — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:58:21 -0800

hippybear: "It's a contraption which measures the amount of oxygen the bird is using. I have no idea how they got it to sleep in there, but they did. And they did it for science" "I have no idea how these people got their hummingbirds wedged into their oxygen-measurers, or why."

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:55:15 -0800

Hummingbirds are one of those little things you might never think of this way. But they don't exist in Europe, and I miss them terribly. At least in South Africa, we had sunbirds, which are slightly larger and look amazingly similar. I miss the confusion of thinking I'm hearing a big bumblebee, and then realizing it's a bird.

By: Augenblick

Augenblick — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:46:09 -0800

My sleeping cat responded to that video with the startled awaking of 'holy mother of God am I going to get myself a tasty snoring snack', and then went back to her default position of wanting to kill me when she realised it wasn't really in the room.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:21:07 -0800

My goal in life is to be an echo (of this sound).

By: kinnakeet

kinnakeet — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:42:30 -0800

Thanks to the flowers in my yard, we get a lot of hummingbirds, and they are astonishing little beasties. Usually, one dominant male will emerge to chase off others with loud, savage dogfights which can be alarming to watch. My brother-and-sister team of cats once knocked a feeding hummer out of the air before I could stop them; the little guy was soaking wet and uttering loud distress calls amid the flowers but I scooped him up and held him safely in my lap where he dried in the sun, perched on my finger and, once dried, abruptly took off, flying just past my head in the process. The vibration of his wings and the strength of his grip on my finger were surprising. When that guy passed my face the sound was like a huge, loud zipper.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:19:35 -0800

Hummingbirds sleep but that sleep is a transitional state to a state of torpor called noctivation, which is one of my favorite words. Noctivation helps keep them from freezing or starving to death overnight. Their heartbeats go from 1260 beats per minute when flying at full tilt to 250 bpm when resting to as low as 36 beats in noctivation, with their body temperature falling to 60 to 65 degrees Farenheit from a waking temperature around 104 . And I can testify from personal knowledge that they are up before dawn to just after sunset. They are amazing creatures.