{"id":92,"date":"2010-08-01T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/?p=92"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:13:09","slug":"feathers-per-square-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/feathers-per-square-inch\/","title":{"rendered":"Feathers per square inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/files\/2010\/08\/hummingbird.gif\" alt=\"hummingbird\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/> A swan has up to 25,000 feathers but a hummingbird has the fewest feathers of all birds &#8211; only about 1,000 feathers. But being so small, it has more feathers per square inch than most other birds.<\/p>\n<p>A hummingbird beats its wings up to 80 times per second, flying at speeds up to 35 mph (56km\/h). Its heart beats more than 1200 times per minute. Which means it needs a lot of food and liquid for energy. It eats up to half its own weight and drinks 8 times its weight in water each day. Its long tubular tongue licks nectar at 13 times a second.<\/p>\n<p>The hummingbird is one of the smallest bird species and the only one that is known to be able to fly backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swan has up to 25,000 feathers but a hummingbird has the fewest feathers of all birds &#8211; only about 1,000 feathers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,24],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-feathers","tag-hummingbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}