1.
Both Butterflies and Humming birds are species
that can fly, but they’ve also developed a long tongue used for extracting
nectar from flowers.
Humming birds possess a beak and tongue long
and narrow to be able to extract nectar from the flowers in their habitat, for
example, the Sicklebills' extremely decurved bills are adapted to extracting
nectar from the curved corollas of flowers in the family Gesneriaceae. While
the butterfly uses a straw like proboscis that curls when not in use. When the
fly emerges from as a butterfly it is actually in two pieces the zipper
together.
1.
While both humming birds and the Honey possum
possess a long tongue used for drinking nectar, they are extremely different
species. Both tongues are held within elongated hard structures, however one is
a snout that also contains the nostrils, the other is a beak with no other
functions.
The closest these two species have, one being
a marsupial and the other a bird, would be at a time when the first animals
took flight.
