Category: Birds
This species of dove is the most commonly kept dove in captivity, owing to their ease of care, hardiness, and pleasant natures. They have been a domesticated species for over 2000 years and are thought to descend from the African Collared Dove, Streptopelia roseogrisea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_dove
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/doves_pigeons/ringneckdove.php
Sugar, Honey Honey…
Too much sugar in the diet leads to obesity for humans: if we drink a can of soda pop (which is mostly high fructose corn syrup), the fructose is converted into fat by our livers; drink too many too often, and we end up gaining weight. But for hummingbirds, sugar isn’t something to eat sparingly: it is a source of power! Because of their simple, sugar rich diet, hummingbirds have adapted the ability to fuel their muscles with fructose without first converting it to fat - a feat unique among vertebrates. We do not yet know for sure how they process it so fast, though experiments have demonstrated that they do indeed possess this amazing capability. How fast, you ask? Their metabolisms are so extreme, a human-sized hummingbird would have to drink a can of soda pop every minute in order to gain weight!
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