<div dir="ltr">The following link will take you to a popular article on the evolution and genetics of taste buds on a hummingbird's tongue. The article insists that most birds have lost the ability to taste the sweetness in foods. I'm not so sure I agree. What about all those fruit eating species in so many families as well as nectar drinking birds in the Meliphagidae, Nectarinidae, Zosteropidae etc.? <div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26089-hummingbirds-turned-savoury-into-sweet-to-taste-nectar.html#.U_diqFb5gTs">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26089-hummingbirds-turned-savoury-into-sweet-to-taste-nectar.html#.U_diqFb5gTs</a><br>
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