Hummingbirds in Love - Faster than a Fighterjet???

Did you know that love moves a hummingbird to relative speeds faster than a fighter jet?? (Picts: Hummers in Costa Rica). In short:

Scientists calculated that the 50mph speed of the hummingbird at the fastest point in its descent is equivalent to it moving 383 times its body length each second. The G-force as it turns out of its dive is nearly nine times the force of gravity – the same as the maximum G-forces experienced by fighter pilots. But Christopher Clark, of the University of California, Berkeley, estimates that the G-forces created as the bird comes out of its dive would make many trained fighter pilots black out as a result of the rush of blood away from the brain.

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Also, these TINY BIRDS migrate (with Monarchs) south, many braving the gulf of mexico in one straight shot! It's many many many hours of straight travel for these little guys in a "live or die" type of scenario. Amazing.