True Facts: The Hummingbird Warrior

We found a hummingbird on the ground today. He wasn't really moving, and my mother asked if he was sick, injured or dead. But thanks to this video, I have a feeling he might've just been in torpor. So I nudged him a bit- he was stuck really hard to the ground, and twitched just a little in response to being touched. So I looked up what to do with a bird in torpor, and dad kept him warm.
He's currently sitting in a makeshift nest on the back patio, with a tiny bowl of sugar water and a heating pad to keep him warm in the winter cold. He's a lot more active now, eating the sugar water, and making a recovery pretty quickly. So thank you Zefrank, you helped me save a bird's life!

"When the hummingbird says just the tip, you might be licked dry in an instant"
I laughed way too hard on that one

Whenever I’m depressed I watch this video. And no matter how terrible I feel I always laugh when he calls them puffball junkie birds.
Seriously, his videos are the cure to my depression. So big thanks to Zefrank!!!! Thanks for making my life a bit more bearable.

Every line in this video is a quote worth laughing at. My favorite is the "I mean if you had your own wind tunnel you'd put all kinds of crap in--not a baby! Not mayonnaise! But definitely the butt feathers of a bird."

My mother is obsessed with hummingbirds, and I don’t think she will ever like anything more than this video...“For science.”

About 20 years ago, we had 3 feeders up for humming birds and routinely had more than a dozen feeding at the same time. It was amazing, like watching WWI aerial combat scenes. They seemed much more interested in fighting the others off than in feeding. The encounters often produced these loud reports, like maybe hitting two pieces of hardwood together, it was wing-contact! They are vicious mfers for sure.

"I'm not busting on Toledo, I'll leave that to the hummingbirds. Sorry." Got me. Full out laughing, yet again.

"As it sticks it's beak into the flowers hole it gets the flowers male stuff all over it's face- Jerry. I can't read this. I don't care if that's how the flowers get all pregnant. It's smut!"

I have had the same hummingbird claim my yard for the last 5 years. We call him Sassy Boy. He's a Black Chinned Hummingbird and he's a bit smaller than the other Black Chins and his beak is a bit shorter as well. We have 5 feeders in the backyard and we can get up to 6 or 7 birds at one time.

Fun Fact: The Aztecs believed that the hummingbirds are reborn fallen warriors

I love how i actually heard the noises and saw a hummingbird do this in real life. very informative, very cool.

Omg just brilliant!!! Zefrank my mind is blown on this one! The research the comedy the beauty the pure creativity!! I wish I could work with you! I live you and this! Bravo nature buddy!!!!

I'm sorry I had to watch this one twice just because I was laughing so hard the first time I think I missed something!!! Sharing the shit out of this one too... thank you!!

the amount of work put into these videos is simply amazing. I sometimes have to watch it a couple of times before I catch all the witty remarks made here and there

I dunno why but "Jerry, that's a moth" just had me laughing a lot for some reason

"It's like MMA, but on a trapeze, and with swor- It's a Jet Li movie."

This was great! I never knew about the hummingbirds' disco naps. The whole video cracked me up too. Thank you

This was wonderful! I love Zefrank....one learns while one laughs and one remembers both!

“the fairies don’t even try to ride these ones, they’re too dangerous, but if they find a dead one they’ll take the beak off and make two saws out of it to cut down twigs to make toothpicks. that’s how they’re made and thats how the fairies put food on the table, and i’ll s*** in a cup of you say otherwise” - why is no one talking about this!? it’s so good!

"The humming bird is a pollinator, as it sticks its beak inside the flowers hole, it gets the male stuff all over its face.. Jerry I can't read this. I DON'T CARE IF THAT IS HOW FLOWERS ALL GET PREGNANT!"
Got me dead 💀

How does anyone get through these without giggling like a little school girl? 😆 Love these videos. Need this to be an actual documentary series for discovery!❤

Where were you when I was home schooled as a kid? Your content is great, informative and hilarious all in one gulp. I guess this is just what Zefrank do.

He’s insanely hilarious!!!! I’m crying with his narrator skills!!! 💁

“Imagine impressing your date on a picnic by climbing up a large hill then running down as fast as you can and right when you pass them spreading your cheeks and (fart noise). That is how a hummingbird do.”

I've just discovered these and it's literally so amazing that it can never stop.

I really love this series; it's so funny that I can't breastfeed my newborn while watching it because I laugh so hard he gets distracted.

Definitely the funniest and yet most informative video I have ever watched. I have started feeding hummingbirds with nectar poured into my palm the last few days and I was just blown away at these little guys. Thank you for the video!!

Absolutely perfect ! Loved this True Facts episode, but, I love them all.

Just too funny, not sure what my audience would do if I changed my style on the 1000's of hummingbirds I feed here daily, LOL, thanks for the smile and cute facts, Robbie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"It's just the sad outcome of a very serious addiction...." Not even one minute in had me rolling.
This is pure gold!

"It is a vicious bicyc- Jerry, it's cycle; it's not short for bicycle."

I love this guys sense of humor, and tend to watch more for his comments than the subject matter it about!

I would love to hear him narrate a Honey Badger , he has done almost every animal in the Animal Kingdom except for a Honey Badger .

The Aztecs knew how hardcore hummingbirds are, considering that one of their war/sacrifice gods (also the world's fifth sun, long story) was called the "hummingbird of the West".

I love how you can watch these videos with your earbuds in, and you look like you’re watching an informational documentary. And technically, that’s not wrong. But also. You don’t exactly want people to know what your ACTUALLY watching. So you let them believe it’s a documentary....

This was the absolute best video on these tiny birds that I have ever watched. I laughed so hard ! I see a guy running downhill at me.....I'm running to ! Great job guys.

This has got to be my favorite True Facts. Ze's dialogue is great!

This is a brilliant way to teach people about nature! I'm locked in and laughing my ass off. 🤣

Thank you for this amazing and hilarious video. I'm up at 1am doing college homework and pissed that my housemates ate my damn fancy bread, the only reason I'm not giving up on life is this and videos like it made by this absolute mad lad!
Also!!! Give Jerry a Raise!!!

Excellent script, eloquent oration. Definitely a favorite of mine now.

I’m not sure if he’s done one but, hope he does one on whales soon. He’s so funny while being so informative… science hippy here n interested in seeing him do one on whales. 🐳🐋

Simply the best TheXvid channel I've discovered yet. So many thanks for your lyrical genius and editing. This is a masterpiece!

Fun fact: It was believed that Aztec Warriors would be reincarnated as hummingbirds when they died.
Makes a lot of sense when you see how cracked out these little birds are.

Recently moved and the new place has a ton of flowers, and I get to see hummingbirds constantly now, it's really awesome and they're super pretty birds, I always see them by the shiny bits under their face.
I think they might be a ruby-necked hummingbird because it's green with purple neck bits.

I love how the mating ritual of a hummingbird involves doing the best possible impression of a Ju-87 Stuka, all the way down to Jericho Horns.

Just found your channel!! OMGOSH, you had me rolling on the floor and sharing like crazy! Definitely the best comedic, documentary channel on TheXvid!!!!!!
Heading for a binge watch now 👍🏻🥰😆😉🌻❤️🌎🌏🌍

I believe Sir David approves of this documentary. And laughs heartily at your narration.

I always ask myself why did hummingbirds evolve to need to eat two times their body weight, but then Mr. Documentarian says, "as if nature ever does things the easy way," and now I am satisfied. Thank you, you majestic Hummybeard.

I love how you inform humanity of the biology of various species. It makes me happy 😊.

Highly educational videos and funny as hell. Thank you! Looks like I will be binge watching for a bit.

First time watching any of your videos. I stumbled on accident cause I was looking up hummingbirds, after the first joke I was like wait what?! The rest was pure laughter and educational #newsubscriber

"When a hummingbird says 'just the tip', you might be sucked dry in an instant."
Now, there's a line you don't hear in nature documentaries!

God this may be the best one yet
"Imagine impressing your date by climbing up a large hill, then running down as fast as you can, and right when you pass them, spreading your cheeks and *bird noise(?)* "

This is the best documentary about Humming birds I ever found. And in the same time is so entertaining to watch!

I used to love using your vids with my 10th grade biology students... nothing like a little mildly inappropriate innuendo to spice up the cool animal facts and amazing imagery. Retired now but still laughing out loud as I enjoy your work.

'For science,' had me in stitches. Too funny! Ze you are hilarious my friend, just hilarious!

This channel was recommended to me and after numerous videos I have dubbed this the explaining animals but for dummies and honestly I've learned so much about rainforest animals and snails that I ever did watching the actual discovery channel.

Not even 50 secs and he's already got 4 jokes out he is on fire.

You sir, are hilarious and very informative.

I have watched this about 5 times and every time the "let's slow this down for science" I start laughing uncontrollably! 😅

I freaking love Hummingbirds, and knowing this about them really makes my day
never even wonder how they reproduced, but now i do and its cool stuff.

We need a Jerry episode. Even a super cut of all the Jerry moments would suffice. Thanks Zefrank for all the laughs and "information". 😄😁😆

I still want a "True Facts: Jerry" video one of these days...

Had a hummingbird fly and get stuck in my house for a couple hours, but the moment I saw it I immediately thought of how you would narrate it😂😂😂

I always wondered what happened to hummingbirds during the winter.
Now I just need to find out what happens to slugs during the winter and I’ll know everything I ever wanted to know about animals.

Yes it was fascinating to see how many bird come into the garage where the daddy longlegs spider webs were and wrap their beak around the spiderwebs we had no idea what it was but then later as we watched him he went over and made his little nest in the tree it was fascinating I was astounded when I saw that

Please please please make lots more true facts videos! They bring me sooooo much joy!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I swear this was one of the funniest episodes in awhile. When he slowed down that one birds sound which sounded like a quick fart I almost died laughing. I can't imagine how much fun he has making these. We need a blooper reel of him recording and laughing at the shit he says.

🤣 the “horse” part got me rolling.
A very similar incident happened to me recently…
driving on the freeway, called 911 because of a traffic/road hazard.
“Ma’am, what’s the hazard?”
“A pile of brown hose”
“… excuse me, what?”
“… brown hosing.”
“Oooh, okay.”
Somewhere out there… I know it’s forever recorded 🤦🏼‍♀️

the aztec god of war was a hummingbird because the aztecs thought of hummingbirds as the ultimate fighters. they are constantly in motion their entire lives, fighting against gravity and the hostile world around them in order to survive. once i learned that i've always had a different respect for hummingbirds lol

True story, a friend of ours actually got speared in the chest by a hummingbird that was flying by when he was walking around his wood shed. That had to hurt like hell. Damn meth birds need to watch where they're going. Don't drugs, or nectar kids.

This was one of, if not the most fascinating, educational, fun, and absolutely hysterical animal videos I've ever seen. Legend, eg, "a very special thanks to (among other awesome hummingbird scientists) Kristina Hurme for her amazing work on weaponized beaks". I mean COME ON!! How bad ass are hummingbirds and Kristiina for that research project. Well done and bravo, fabulous video

I went to college at Texas A&M at Corpus Christi. It's on an island right on the southward migration path for hummingbirds. There are hundred and hundred and hundreds of rows of bushes that cover with red flowers right at that time, and at peak migration there are millions of hummingbirds. They are so busy squabbling you can stick your face within an inch or two of them and they don't care. It is one of my coolest lifetime experiences.

What an epic epic video! Informative and hardcore as always 👌

"Everything in moderation except moderation do that all the time"
That is hilarious and profound killer combo quote right there

I've watched this channel for many manyyyyyyy years and I gotta say this is the funniest one XD The back to back to back silliness and jokes had me crying.

These nature breakdowns are hilarious. Best on the webs for sure.

I have a funny story about hummingbirds! My great grandpa was camping with my great grandma once, an they had hung a humming bird feeder on the camper. This humming bird kept flying at Pops face and he swatted at it, an it spit a stream of sugar water from the feeder right in his face. I laughed so hard when I first heard the story! Remembering this now is kind of sad tho. Pop is alive, but Maudy (great grandma) died 6 months ago.
Anyways, great video!

While talking about the reverse spring break, u coulda also added "while college students _try to lose weight_ and fly south... Hummingbirds _try to gain weight_ and fly north..."

Fascinating and interesting video. I love Hummingbirds. It's so nice being with this birds! Thanks for sharing and the upload!!!!!

I'm surprised you never mentioned the fact that Hummingbird's tongue wraps around to the top of it's skull.

Fun fact about hummingbirds: they are one of the only groups of birds to pee. Most birds convert their urea (the main waste product in urine) into uric acid. Uric acid is less toxic than urea, so it can be stored in the body in a more concentrated (and solid) form. This is important because in order to fly, a bird cant be carrying around a full bladder (urine is mostly water because urea is so toxic). However, since hummingbirds get way more water than they need from nectar, they have to be constantly excreting urine throughout the day.

"I don't care if that's how the flowers get all pregnant, Jerry! It's smut!" 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you for sharing this, professor.

I can attest to the moth thing. Saw a sphinx moth of some form (think it might be a hawk moth idk) sucking on a lantana and thought it might be some sort of nocturnal hummingbird for a second.

I found a hummingbird nest in may. I got to watch 2 baby hummingbirds grow up over 6 weeks and leave the nest. It was cool to witness something like that

Fun fact, the Aztecs believed that when a warrior died, their soul became a Humming Bird, would explain the aggression and now I want you all to imagine a tiny little Humming Bird zipping by and in a teeny tiny voice its screaming *"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!"*

You, sir, are absolutely out of your mind! I love it and I thank you!

Totally clever video! I've witnessed that divebombing behavior and the "butt" (tailfeathers!) sound. Hummers are amazing!

I've been attacked by a hummingbird while geocaching in northern California, just kept coming at me until I got in my car.

OMGODDESS your mind is got to be absolutely insane with all the different species you explain in only the way you have perfected to perfection when explaining these little stories! I. ❤️❤️❤️ it. Thank you

"You don't just wake up one day and want to deep-tongue a flower."
Speak for yourself, Zefrank.

The (TRUE!) fact that the magnification WAS exactly like a Meade composition notebook.... I horse-laughed, out loud, by myself, from beginning to end

Love it definitely enjoyed this doc and it's so funny because they are little junkies basically they stay hyped up all day long like they are tweaking 😂 either way I love hummingbirds always have I currently only have seen one hitting my feeder this year normal would least see two or three but this summer I have had only one little ruby throated hummingbird and it's gorgeous I hope one day I can get them to Perch and feed in my hand but so far I have only got one to come in and get a couple sips before flying off but I've learned that there very smart and will slowly open up after awhile when it sees your trust worthy so I'm hoping that day comes until then I have to watch from my window and marvel at these gorgeous birds and there colors are so cool how they literally are shiny like metal would be so it makes them so beautiful so I am still praying for the day it Perch's and sits down and gets its sip on lol hope it happens and if I could just get one more wish would be able to pet it's little head a couple times too will be perfect

I never realised how aggressive they are until I was outside smoking a blazooka and watched 3 of them fight for dominance over a feeder they would go sit on a branch near by and when another would come they would divebomb into each other

Ruby throats are my favorite.
OMG THEY GO SO FAST I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE SOCIALIZING. I DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR TURF
I say ridden hard and left out in the rain. And yes it's about horses. They're smart enough to know that its neglectful abuse. Dont do that to them.

He's not kidding about Hummingbirds being fighters: Even the Aztec, one of the most hardcore and metal-as-hell civilizations in history, associated hummingbirds with warfare and militarism, with soldiers who died in battle being reborn as hummingbirds in the highest tier of the afterlife. Plucked hummingbird feathers were also widely used for a variety of feather mosaic art, including on opulent warsuits like Tlahuiztli and Ehuatl and shields, where their entire surface would be covered in feathers of different colors arranged to make patterns based on the wearer's rank and unit division. Most notably, Huitzilopotchli ("Hummingbird of the left"), the patron god of the Mexica of the Aztec captial (Tenochtitlan), was the god of war, as well as the deity who was associated most with the heightened scale of human sacrifice the Mexica preformed, where in the late 1420's or early 1430's, Mexica religion and history was rewritten by the then Tenochca king Itzcoatl and the Cihuacoatl (a sort of grand vizer position) Tlacaelel I, to place an increased emphasis on Huitzlipotchli and his need for the blood of enemy soldiers in sacrifices to justify and encourage wars of expansion.
That being said, the Mexica ("Aztec" can mean the Mexica specifically, the broader Nahua civilization they were a subgroup of; or the "Aztec Empire", which had Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan as 3 ruling cities, with Tenochtitlan as the most dominant, over the subjects they collectively conquered... confusingly, not all cities in that empire were culturally Nahua, and not all Nahua city-states were in that empire!) get a bit of a bad rap, moreso then they deserve: Even if they sacrifice more people then other Mesoamerican groups on large scales, they didn't sacrifice nearly as many people as typical pop culture accounts and most sources say: Archeological evidence doesn't support the sort of insane totals you see of them sacrificing 80,000 people in 4 days or hundreds of thousands of people a year. The actual total was probably in the hundreds or maybe low thousands annually, but most of these (up to 75%, per modern findings) were enemy soldiers, not civilians. That may seem like a lot stillt, but it's not incomparable to the amount of religious deaths you see in other societies: For example, there was a French religious war in the 13th century which kille 200,000 to 1m people in 20 years, or 10,000 to 50,000 people a year.
People, sadly, are just only exposed to the negative, (and hyperbolized/exagerrated, at that) elements of Aztec and other Mesoamerican civilization's cultures, and not the postives, or even just their art or random cultural elements like they are, say, the Greeks or Japanese: If I asked you to visuallize an Aztec city, you'd probably imagine a jungle with a grey pryamid and a few huts around it. in reality, Tenochtitlan had by most estimates 200,000 denizens, in the same ball[park as the then most populated cities in Europe like Paris and Constantinople; and covered an area around the same size as the what Rome's walls encompassed. The city was built out of artficial islands called Chinampas, and had Venice like canals running through it. Large pyramids, palaces, and noble villas were covered in clean stucco and had painted accents, frescos with floral and avian motifs, and reliefwork and sculptural facades, as can be seen in this (pbs.twimg.com/media/EY-uYAoUEAAXalw.jpg:large) or this (i.pinimg.com/originals/16/23/bb/1623bb0ccc611f13430ffcd279f4f9fc.jpg) painting(s) by Scott and Stuart Gentling (I have way more from them, reach out to me at Majora__Z on twitter if interested!). Gardens were commonly built into larger homes and in communal areas of cities as well, with flowers being a major art motif and being carried around by men and women; with the Aztec even having a formal taxonomic system for categorizing plant life, wich some of the gardens acting as academic labs where plants were studied and bred.
Nahuatl , the Aztec/Nahua language, has a rich tradition of symbolism ladden poetry, and there's some surviving Aztec poetry today: Common themes include the cyclical nature of life/growth and death'/destruction and the transience of all things, which also ties into much of their cosmological worldview (sacrifice was very much about particpating in a natural cysle where like how animals and plans consumed the rain and sun; and how people consume animals and plants, the gods/the sun/run must consume people; and about accepting that death is a natural part of life)
For example, the most famous king of Texcoco, Nezhualcoyotl, was an esteemed poet (one of his most famous verses, "Not forever on earth, only a little while here; be it jade, it shatters; be it gold, it breaks, be it a quetzal feather, it tears apart; not forever on earth, only a little while here"; touches on a lot of the aformentioned concepots) and legal reformer, as well as an accomplished engineeer, having designed the dike bearing his name seperating the waters of the lake Tenochtitlan was in into a brackish and freshwater side, as well a redesign of Tenochtitlan's main aquaduct two have two pipes rather then a single open channel common in, say, Roman aquaducts; so the water streams were sealed off and one side could run as the other was cleaned out (cleanliness, alongside feathers/birds and gardens, is one of those things people don't associate with the Aztec but that they were obessed with: Tenochtitlan had an entire fleet of civil servents to clean every street and building and collect waste on a daily basis, bathing was regular even for commoners, you were expected to wash your hands, face, and teeth multiple times a day, etc).
His most impressive accomplishment was probably the watering systems for his personal royal retreat and gardens: This system fed water from the Mexican Sierra Nevada mountain range 5 miles away (at some points the aquaduct rising 200 feet above ground level) onto a hill nearby the gardens, had a system of pools and channels to control the rate of water flow. The water then crossed over a huge stone channel between the gorge of that hill's peak and the peak of the hill (Texcotzingo) the baths were on, at which point the channel formed a circuit around the top of the second hill, filled the baths and a series of shrines and aesthetic displays (complete with statues, painted fresco, carved relifs, etc), and dropped water off via artificial waterfalls around key points of the gardens below; which also had different sections emulating the biomes of different parts of Mexico with the specific plant life found in each.
And the Aztec are just one of dozen major civilizations in Mesoamerica: Most people also know of the Maya (though like the Aztec, they are heavily misunderstood), but the Zapotec and Mixtec (two major civilizations in what's now the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero; the Mixtec warlord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw has one of the craziest life stories, going from a noble acting as a general leading armies for the kings of other cities, to founding his own city-state of Tututepec; levarging alliances with key political and religious figures in other major cities like Cholula, to then finally sidestepping the Mixtec political system to conquer nearly 100 cities in 18 years, before finally dying in an ironic twist of fate when the one boy he left alive in his arch-rivals family grew up to overthrow him), the Teotihuacano (Teotihuacan was a massive metropolis in the same valley the core Aztec area was in; covering an insane 37 square kilometers, with nearly all it's citizens living in fancy palace complexes), the Purepecha (who had the second largest empire in Mesoamerica after the Aztec, and repelled numerous invasions from them), etc.
It's an extremely underrated part of history.

Here because the Dr Don Powers cited in the description is actually my current ornithology professor. This video is absolutely fantastic, it had my friend and I crying in our professor's office

You're like the perfect combination of Sir David Attenborough and Bill Murray - educational and funny as fuck 😂 fart jokes are never not funny I don't care who says otherwise!

I mean, to be fair there Jerry, zefrank doesn't need the phoenetics. He can totally read and his pronunciation is always completely flawless.