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(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!

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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 97 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

Put your hand in the Acme box.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 22 points 2 days ago

Great detail about how they don't drink... Nothing about them not being able to read. Sus.

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The joke was literally already made in the OP.

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I didn't read it because I am illiterate

[–] BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can you also go your whole life without drinking water?

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, technically, anything can go illiterate

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Dictation software has come a long way huh

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting! My cat definitely does not conserve urine.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I definitely wouldn't want to be a plant when a roadrunner's full bladder is nearby.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't have to know what's on the sign to hold the sign.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Checks out. Meep meep.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't piss at all, I just hold it in until it solidifies then squeeze kidney stones out like forcing a bunch of caltrops through a tube of gogurt.

[–] melisdrawing@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

This is wrong, what you have written here is wrong.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

I need Chuck Testa.

Is that roadrunner holding a sign?

Nope. Chuck Testa.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

Damn, he didn't have to do UT San Antonio dirty like that