CAMPBELL'S BIOLOGY 12E PERUSALL
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Hummingbirds are well adapted to obtain sugary nectar from flowers, but they use some ot the energy obtained from nectar when they forage for insects or spiders, as this individual is doing. Explain why this foraging is necessary.
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