Anna's Hummingbird

It’s calypte anna. It’s a hummingbird. I want to pick the thing up, cradle it in my hands, but I wouldn't dare. I wouldn’t dare touch a dead bird. That’s gross. I remember my days as a child, where the world was much taller and brighter. I remember the sunshine beating on the wings of an iridescent dead thing in my hands. “That’s cool.” I smile. I leave the room and my emotions spark at a memory. I’m still a very sensitive person, in case you’re wondering. Later, I sit down at that desk too look again at the little bird. Her wings are outstretched, posed by my Grammie; her miniscule legs are curled into her body. I remember my thoughts of the same spectacle as a child. This is God’s design. So efficient and small and fast. Who else looks at dead hummingbird’s with such wonder? Me and my Grammie, I guess. Though I wasn’t the one to kill those hummingbirds, whether it be an Act of God or some other happening, I’m still able to better see them. When I watch a hummingbird dive in the air like a jet plane, a flash of tropical lightning, I can see what their slick wings look like when not in motion and feel how ridiculously tiny they are. I understand…

Ruby throated hummingbird is a very interesting species. The spend most of their time in Central American and most of Eastern North American. Ruby-throated hummingbirds winter in Mexico and Central America. To get there from their North American breeding grounds some birds embark on a marathon, nonstop flight across the Gulf of Mexico. They may double their weight in preparation for this grueling journey. The hummingbird is approximately 7 to 9 cm long and has an 8 to 11cm wingspan. The ruby…

have to bottle feed him. Harley, Emmy’s prissy, spoiled, silver long hair Silky, after sniffing and checking out the new intruder, climbed in the box where Emmy kept the kitten, decided, Shadow had to be her baby, and that’s how Shadow came to believe he was a dog. As Shadow grew, and Harley mentored him, Emmy noticed how much Shadow acted more like a dog. “Two peas in a pod,” Emmy’s mother would say to Harley and Shadow, as she watched them play. And then it happened one early…

This paper will analyze Anna Fekete in “The Hummingbird”, “The Defenceless” and “The Exiled” by Kati Hiekkapelto. These are the books in the Anna Fekete series and are of the Nordic Noir genre. I will first discuss how Anna is a merge of first generation and second generation of female detectives. I will then examine how her change in perspective on family and relationships throughout the series have led to this merge. Lastly, I will analyze how the discriminated refugees from all three books…

thicker fur others have stronger muscles. Hummingbirds have to consume massive amounts of foods everyday in order to survive. One of their evolutionary traits is a mutated T1R1-T1R3 taste receptor. An experiment was conducted to test how hummingbirds detect sugars in nectar. The article “Evolution of sweet taste perception in hummingbirds by transformation of the ancestral umami receptor” (Maude W. Baldwin et al. science 345, 929 (2014) describes the experiment. They stated that hummingbirds…

iv. Increased enzymatic capacities for substrate catabolism v. Higher degree of clustering of subsarcolemmal mitochondria adjacent to capillaries-> higher O2 flux rates vi. Mitochondrial volume densities and surface areas per unit mitochondrial volume are near maximum theoretical limits in hummingbirds and higher than mammals-> achieved due to higher oxygen delivery capacities and substrate catabolism (Suarez et al. 1991) 5. Metabolic Substrate Turnover a. Questions i. Do hummingbirds…