The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) is, by a long way, the biggest hummingbird in the world. It's about twice the size of the next biggest hummingbird - the most extreme version of a kind of animal that's already pretty extreme ...

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Music

Opening & Closing Themes: Running Waters and Acoustic Meditation by Audionautix (Jason Shaw), from audionautix.com. CC BY 3.0.

plus modified versions of:

It's a Jazz Thing by Smiling Cynic, CC BY 3.0

Dead From The Beginning, Alive Till The End by Doctor Turtle, CC BY 3.0