Snoring Hummingbird Video Goes Viral — Want to See Why?
- Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:38pm by
Liz Klimas
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Some people sound like a whistling tea kettle while others sound like a rattling muffler headed down a dirt road, but these categories of snore sounds aren’t unique to human-kind. Other animals share similar audible noises while they catch Zs, and people just can’t get enough of these viral videos.
This clip of a hummingbird, which sounds like a tiny cartoon bomb being dropped, was posted on Christmas Eve 2011 and is staring to grab the Internet’s attention. It now has more than a half a million hits. (Note: The lower hum in the background is a machine measuring the oxygen being consumed by the bird’s snores):
But the snoring hummingbird isn’t the only sleeping animal that has garnered clicks. For example, this sleeping duckling — double whammy because it‘s a baby animal and it’s snoring — posted in 2006 has more than 2 million hits:
This snoring dormouse video has garnered more than 3 million YouTube hits since its Dec. 21, 2011, posting. See if you don’t think it sounds a bit like your granny after Thanksgiving dinner:
And check out this lop bunny that really gets going when he’s relaxed:
What does this barnyard pig sound like to you?
If you have seen or own any footage of snoring household pets or wildlife, send them our way.
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Comments (95)
MominMD2003
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:15pmCute videos, though not as cute as pug snoring.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:05pmPugs always sound that way – awake or asleep
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:28pmMy Chihuahua snores .. and she loves to watch the hummingbirds at our feeder when we are in Michigan … too cute to see it snoring.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:38pmThe pig wins!!!! Thanks Blaze for brightening mine and my daughters day!
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 7:38pmI got them all beat with my snoring.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:34pm“Other animals share similar audible noises while they catch Zs”
For example, take Barack Hussein Obama (please): yes you can, yes you can, yes you can …
Report Post »alicat0818
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:43pmMy pom sounds cuter than a pug when he snores and he doesn’t have the smooshed nose as an excuse.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 12, 2012 at 1:48pmLooks like the sheeple of the United States of America to me…
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:47pmSounds like Congress. Apparently sleeping is what they do really well. They sure don’t do anything
Report Post »else.
hatchetjob
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:58pmRighto, and when Congress isn’t sleeping, they’re passing crappy bills at break neck speed (but we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it).
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 1:41pmIn that case Let Them Sleep!!!
Report Post »Paul
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 11:32pmCongress ?
Oh yea I remember them…
Good ole John B, another loser. Worthless.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 11:35pm“It’s not going to be business as usual”
Yea right pal, go have another cigarette, with your Comrad and chief…
I few tears , a deep voice and a CROCK.
Report Post »mapgirl10
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:45pmGood to see it isn’t all gloom and doom at the Blaze…….lol love the story!
Report Post »Br@dley
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:18pmstill reporting the “news” on the blaze i see…
Report Post »lildeb56
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:50pmIt can’t be all gloom and doom – we all need a chuckle!
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:50pmLighten up.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 7:20pmhere is some funny Bot stuff for you
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rvMHopVwyXY#!
UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:06pm@BRADLEY The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
Report Post »JohnBirch
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:01pmI’m sending this link to my wife……maybe she‘ll think I’m cute too
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:00pmNot bloody likely! Lol
LOJ
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:43pmThese are so doggone cute…Love All God’s creatures!
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:22pmAbsolutely……………………
Report Post »blackstone22
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:33pmsooo cute.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:59pmI have a husky-lab mix who snores so loudly I can hear her when I’m in the upstairs bedroom with the door closed and she is downstairs in the livingroom next to the woodstove.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:50pmAll very cute. Thanks Blaze!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:42pm.
Report Post »I don’t even want to know how much tax payer money they wasted on the studies………….
Stoic one
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:56pmWith the exception of the hummingbird, these are OBVIOUSLY home recordings. The hummer I only consider that it may be a collegiate study because of the Oxygen sensor.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:18amAnd…the hummingbird video was from Peru, so…
Report Post »Nick_A
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:37pmJust goes to show the effect of an Obama speech on both people and animals.
Report Post »elkonian
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:35pmIf you like snoring animals, then get a pug!
Report Post »Peter Yohansen
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:57pmOr a Liberal, either way!
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:57pmI have a Jackrussel – Beagle who snores quite nicely in my lap watching TV.
Report Post »pugczar
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:35pmI have three pugs. I love all the snoring… except sometimes when I am on the phone whoever I am talking to thinks that it is a family member snoring in the background.
Report Post »Nolooters
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:35pmROFL The snoring pig reminds me of my ex. :))
Report Post »PATRIOT
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:34pmAnd now the peta people will want them given disability for a sleep disorder.
Report Post »FedUpAlready
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:33pmHow can that bird sleep, with all that noise in the background? Couldn’t they shut the machine off while they were recording this? Sheesh!
Report Post »Collbuzz
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:06pmWhite noise.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:39pmRacist!
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:31pmI could have told you about the pig, my friends family is actually taming a wild hog they named him Chuck Norris. Now not only can that thing snore but you don’t want to be around when it gets gassy. But it does keep the rest of the wild hogs off the yard.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:37pmAnd what sir is wrong with BACON?
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:50pmThis line of commenting has cracked me up! Thanks guys!
Report Post »daveposh
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:31pmRE: (Note: The lower hum in the background is a machine measuring the oxygen being consumed by the bird’s snores):
Are they considering putting CPAP on he hummingbird?
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:13pmIt did seem that he had Apnia. lol
Report Post »one.dakine.howlie
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:29pmThat duckling and hummingbird is too precious. What an amazing world we live in.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:27pmWatch The Other Hand, Blazers! This is obviously a trick by George Soros to divert your attention from his Master Plan to use Van Jones and John Holdren to sterilize all non-union Republicans in America and usher in a Worldwide Caliphate.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:05pmWatch the middle finger, Mr. Massengill.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 9:52pm@ Jackthetoad
Applause! Liked your response.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:46amThanks, Cosmos. I know that feeding the trolls only brings them back, but I thought ‘ahh… what the hell’.
Report Post »Amica
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:34amHi Broker101!
Report Post »Glad to see you’re spending your very valuable time on the important stories.
Admit it, you watched all of the videos twice then went to youtube to find more!
nappy
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:26pmToo bad none of these were shot with a wide angle lens.. You would see Biden in the background for sure.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:34pmHa ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »PimpleJuice
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 2:11pmYou should hear my butt snore. Wait a minute….
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 6:04pmAs long as we don’t have to use the sense of smell, that might be entertaining.
Report Post »assertiveconservative
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:56pmVery cute!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:47pmthey want more snoring vids? do human Grandpas count?
Report Post »alicat0818
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:42pmThey should. Mine is so cute when he snores so loud he wakes himself up. He looks around like the noise came from somewhere else and we all just laugh.
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:45pmBest story of the day.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:44pmBig deal. All they did was put a video of Obamas last speech in front of the bird and he was snoring in 3 minutes.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:46pmah, but the drone Bidet’s speeches puts them out under 1 minute.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:50pmOh look, its Oba… ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………….
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:54pmGood point Burn. I forgot about that dope.
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