• boCash@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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    1 year ago

    Hummingbirds need all the calories they can get. Their calorie requirements per mass are somewhere in the realm of 50x greater than a human’s.

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      1 year ago

      i am aware, but sugar water in 100% calories and no protein, essential fats, vitamins or minerals, whatsoever

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        1 year ago

        Biology is different for lots of different creatures. Just because we need certain things in our diet doesn’t mean birds need those same things in the same quantities from the same sources. We are, after all, quite different from birds.