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TODAY’S ANIMAL FACT

Trying to stick to your New Year’s diet resolution?  Feeling hungry?  You probably don’t get as hungry as hummingbirds. Because they fly in a not very efficient way, with their wings rotating in circles (instead of beating up and down) up to 200 times per minute, they need a lot of energy. To keep it going they eat many small meals per day, yet altogether they guzzle at least twice their body weight in nectar!  Plus they munch insects for protein. But of course their body weight isn’t very much—some tip the scales at less than a penny. So don’t expect to see one on The Biggest Loser.

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