Hummingbird visits to real flowers, filmed on 30 April 2012 at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2012 · Science & Technology
This video shows hummingbird visits to real flowers, filmed on 30 April 2012 at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. In this video, an individual of Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) visits M. aurantiacus flowers. The last flower that the bird visits in the video is an unopened flower. This research was published in the journal Proceedings of The Royal Society B in the paper: Nectar bacteria, but not yeast, weaken a plant-pollinator mutualism by Rachel L. Vannette, Marie-Pierre L. Gauthier and Tadashi Fukami. The doi link for the article is http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb. 2012.2261
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