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Take the plunge for love, like a hummingbird
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In the bird world, males often go to extremes to attract female attention, through dance, colour and sophisticated home decor, for instance. Hummingbirds are no exception. Broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus) fly up to 30m in the air before diving down towards a perched female, then c
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