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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1814251" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>A parallel example here. My wife works in a warehouse (she is the manager) and is the first to arrive and least to leave each day. This past week, a hummingbird entered the warehouse at 4:00 pm. My wife got home at 7:15 pm and told me there was a hummingbird trapped and would be dead by morning as she has seen this before. (Hummingbirds shouldn't go longer than 2 hours without food as their metabolism is astronomically high, which will be important for another reason in a minute) I grabbed a spare hummingbird feeder we had while my son cooked up some sugar water. my wife and I made it back to the warehouse by 7:45 pm (its a 20 minute drive) we got there and the bird was still flying. 5 minutes later (or less) it dropped like a stone without warning. Lucky I saw it drop. I scooped it up. (Eyes shut and nearly lifeless) and stuck its beak into one of the flowers on the feeder. Almost instantly the bird's head starts bobbing and you can tell its drinking frantically and its eyes open. Within 5 minutes (remember, high metabolism) the bird takes off and flies away. If I had hesitated in grabbing the feeder and making food, by only 10 minutes, the bird would be dead. Maybe a hummingbird isn't that significant, but it shows how important even a small amount of time can be for life vs death.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1814251, member: 43196"] A parallel example here. My wife works in a warehouse (she is the manager) and is the first to arrive and least to leave each day. This past week, a hummingbird entered the warehouse at 4:00 pm. My wife got home at 7:15 pm and told me there was a hummingbird trapped and would be dead by morning as she has seen this before. (Hummingbirds shouldn't go longer than 2 hours without food as their metabolism is astronomically high, which will be important for another reason in a minute) I grabbed a spare hummingbird feeder we had while my son cooked up some sugar water. my wife and I made it back to the warehouse by 7:45 pm (its a 20 minute drive) we got there and the bird was still flying. 5 minutes later (or less) it dropped like a stone without warning. Lucky I saw it drop. I scooped it up. (Eyes shut and nearly lifeless) and stuck its beak into one of the flowers on the feeder. Almost instantly the bird's head starts bobbing and you can tell its drinking frantically and its eyes open. Within 5 minutes (remember, high metabolism) the bird takes off and flies away. If I had hesitated in grabbing the feeder and making food, by only 10 minutes, the bird would be dead. Maybe a hummingbird isn't that significant, but it shows how important even a small amount of time can be for life vs death. [/QUOTE]
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