If you want to know what makes hummingbirds tick, it’s best to avoid most poetry about them. The Aztecs weren’t fooled. The Aztecs loved war, and they loved the beauty of the birds as well. Scientists understood that aggression was a deep and pervasive part of hummingbird life. The seemingly perfect match of nectar-bearing flowers to slender nectar-sipping beaks clearly showed that hummingbirds were shaped by co-evolution.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2019 12:04 UTC