It always amazes me how small birds change direction mid-flight and seem to do it frequently, being able to make tons of movements in small urban areas with lots of obstacles.
Same thing with squirrels – they move so fast and seem to be able to make a hundred movements in the time a human could be able to make ten!
So what’s going on here? Do some animals just THINK faster than humans, and not only move faster than them?
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Well, I am no expert, but given proportionately differing body sizes, their nervous systems would react 4 times faster, than an animal 4 times it size.
New look at the Humming bird, some species of humming bird have wing beats of up to 200 times a second, and yes, their reaction times are heightened, where they would be able to see incoming threats and make changes to its flight.
Not to mention Humming bird is *EXTREMELY* agile, as the wings do not flap up and down in the traditional bird sense to generate lift, they flap like a Bee, in a Figure 8 pattern. At that beat speed they can make alterations to their wings mid beat allowing them to perform some INCREDIBLE feats that normal birds cannot, like flight, while Upside down (Inverted).
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