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Hummingbirds Drink the Human Equivalent of One Alcoholic Drink Every Day

The first large survey of alcohol in flower nectar finds that most flowers naturally contain ethanol, that pollinators consume it constantly, and that hummingbirds metabolise the human equivalent of one alcoholic drink every single day without showing any sign of intoxication. The hummingbird at your garden feeder is not just sipping sugar water. It is,

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