i think a lot of people hear the word ‘roadrunner’ and associate it immediately with the looney tunes character but uh. real roadrunners actually manage to look even stranger than the cartoon?
Before my parents married my dad worked at a national guard base in Arizona that basically consisted of a bunch of “office buildings” made up of clusters of those long, thin pre-fab style tube houses. In the afternoons if it wasn’t too hot the guys in his building would open the doors on either end to get a breeze through. Apparently a local roadrunner took this as an open invitation and started coming in to “inspect” the offices each day/use the long hallway as an indoor runway. He go up and down the hallway stopping at each desk to see if anyone had anything tasty for him and then wander back out the other end and go about his roadrunner day. If they didn’t open the doors right away he’d just be hanging out, waiting outside the building until someone let him in. They are apparently highly curious (and also incredibly trusting) birds.
this just made me so happy thank you for sharing your story
Bonus Fun Facts:
The closest relatives to roadrunners are Cuckoos
They run up to 26mph, only a bit slower than Usain Bolt!
Roadrunners are monogamous and form lifelong pair-bonds.
They’re omnivores, but have a distinct fondness for meat eating mice, rats, snakes (including rattlesnakes), other birds eggs and babies, and sometimes young jackrabbits!
They have two front-facing toes and two rear-facing toes.
Roadrunners are fully capable of flying, but since most of thier food is on the ground, they really only use it to get away from predators.
Roadrunners are amazing and i miss them now that i no longer live in Arizona.
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