(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!

  • @[email protected]
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    31 hour ago

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

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Put your hand in the Acme box.

  • 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? 😏

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

  • @[email protected]
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    11 hours 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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        711 hours 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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          211 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        39 hours ago

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

  • Zerlyna
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    2013 hours ago

    Interesting! My cat definitely does not conserve urine.

    • @finitebanjo
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      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?