Not like chickens, but birds that can actually fly?
This is the first thing I thought of this morning. Perhaps a pet budgie that was a fucking fatty?
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)
y
― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)
omg that's great
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)
Can an obese bird still fly?
Too fat to fly?
Many warblers will weigh twice their normal weight when they begin their migration and will need the best possible departure conditions when setting off. Fatter birds may also be more vulnerable to predators (and be a better meal for them!) as they cannot maneuver so easily.
― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)
We have had some fat fuckin' robins hanging out in the backyard this spring. They ate well in Mexico this winter.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)
btw do not google img search for "obese bird", it is disturbing but not very educational
― meat of beef (Jordan), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)
Yes, birds can get obese. We have some enormous pigeons around here. Some of them are so big that they have to take a run up to get in the air, and when they're flying their wings sound like those of a vulture.
― snoball, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:04 (sixteen years ago)
This news is fantastic.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)
in Antarctica i knew some people that fed a skua 14 hot dogs. he tried to fly and sort of did, his belly bouncing along the ice
― ilx robot (jergins), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)
Why, in Encounters at the End of the World, did Herzog not assault the penguin guy with the question, "Can a PENguin become oBESE?" Of course, it is much more important to ask, as he did, if they can become deRANGED.
(I like to impersonate Werner Herzog when alone in my home.)
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)
http://www-scf.usc.edu/%7Ejgause/images/fatbird.jpg
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)
http://calorielab.com/news/2005/07/18/obese-super-pigeons-terrorize-welsh-cities/
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
http://i39.tinypic.com/intp90.jpg
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)
wtf goldcrest
― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:15 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.proprinttransfers.co.uk/images/fat%20birds.jpg
― StanM, Monday, 30 March 2009 20:17 (sixteen years ago)
rip dom
― the most brazen explosion of clitoral lust in folk-metal history (cankles), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)
obese super-pigeons
This is so terrifying to me. I fucking hate pigeons.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:24 (sixteen years ago)
super-pigeons!! :-(
super-HILARIOUS
― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
yes pigeons - i dunno what's worse, the obese ones who can barely walk let alone fly from eating all the crap the rats didn't find yet (as Tracy Jordan sed, "why are you eating garbage don't you know you can fly?!") , or the lean cocky bastards who keep swopping at eye level and making you flinch
also not obese but the size of those seagulls that strut around trying to steal your chips is unnerving too
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:27 (sixteen years ago)
I <3 gulls, esp herring gulls
― Zayatte Mondatta (country matters), Monday, 30 March 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)
My dog gets very annoyed when he sees "Fat Pidgey" sitting on the garden shed. I think he is sizest. Perhaps it's mean of me to say that Fat Pidgey is going to take ball-ie.
― Orin Boyd (jel --), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)
thank u cankey
― tweet me 911 (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 March 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)
what a thread
― ask morbs if he is better off than he was 4 days ago (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 9 September 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)
We've certainly bred turkeys to the extent that they can no longer naturally procreate.
― A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down (Sanpaku), Sunday, 9 September 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/50312_211832391279_4723244_n.jpg
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Sunday, 9 September 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)
I asked an ornithologist about this and she said there's few obese birds because they tend to get caught and eaten easier.
― ms fotheringham (Crabbits), Sunday, 9 September 2012 21:08 (thirteen years ago)