(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!

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    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
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      35 minutes ago

      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.