How the hummingbird's forked tongue traps sweet nectar. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/05/how-the-hummingbirds-forked-tongue-traps-swe

In 1833 they thought that hummingbirds used there tounge in a capillary action. Alejandro Rico- Guevara and Margaret Rubega at the University of Connecticut they toke 30 hummingbirds to see how they really get nectar. They used high speed camera's to see how the hummingbirds eat. They found out that just before the tounge reaches the nectar it is still in one. When it reaches the nectar it seperates into two tounges then it rolls up the nectar into the mouth to to eaten





I chose to do this is because i thought it was interesting to find out what they thought about it then how it really worked. I think it is cool of how they can split there tounge into two and eat like that. I thought it was interesting of how they found out how they eat using a high speed camera. I think it was interesting watching and seeing how it ate and how it splits.