(Or at least partly factual, I don’t know if we’ve proved that they can’t read.)

  1. They can go a lifetime without water

Birds are experts in conserving water.

Along with mammals, they’re the only animals capable of concentrating urine, and this helps them reduce the water they need, thus reducing their weight and making flight a heck of a lot easier – even if they choose not to fly much.

These birds can go an entire lifetime without drinking water (technically, so can everything else, but at least in roadrunners that lifetime isn’t reduced by it), and get their moisture entirely from their diets.

https://factanimal.com/roadrunner/

Chuck Jones did the research!

    • Flying SquidOP
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      573 months ago

      Put your hand in the Acme box.

  • @Cold_Brew_Enema
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    353 months ago

    I mean, technically, anything can go a lifetime without water.

    • @BigPotato
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      643 months ago

      The joke was literally already made in the OP.

        • MolochAlter
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          23 months ago

          Dictation software has come a long way huh

        • @Sludgeyy
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          23 months ago

          I mean, technically, anything can go illiterate

  • Zerlyna
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    213 months ago

    Interesting! My cat definitely does not conserve urine.

    • @finitebanjo
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      3 months ago

      Neither does the roadrunner. It CONCENTRATES urine, as in expels the uric acid and nitrogen dioxodes after pulling the water back out.

      I bet its extra foul. lol get it?

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    I don’t care what Chuck Jones has to say.

    I need Chuck Testa.

    Is that roadrunner holding a sign?

    Nope. Chuck Testa.

      • Codex
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        93 months ago

        My big brained billionaire coyote boyfriend wants to invite a roadrunner into the mix but I haven’t worked through my feelings about casual polyamory yet and also I am a ghost bigfoot

        • Flying SquidOP
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          23 months ago

          I’m cool with the whole furry thing, my friend. Good luck to you!

      • @[email protected]
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        43 months ago

        When he popped into hbomberguy’s 50-something hour Donkey Kong 64 nightmare stream for trans charity I lost it

  • Deconceptualist
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    Ok. Can they write? Can they understand the concept of written language enough to hold a sign like that for others to read? 😏

  • boredsquirrel
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    63 months ago

    I always wonder if I can concentrate urine if I just wait when needing to pee and it goes away for some reason