Whenever two hummingbirds strive for dominance at a feeder, whenever they fight over a patch of blossoms, whenever one strafes my head because I\u2019m too close to its food source, I am reminded that hummingbirds, like all birds, are the evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs.<\/p>\n
A hummingbird has a T-Rex heart.<\/p>\n
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