Dinosaur Adjacent
Listen. I love birds. Even kind of ugly ones. Even ones that kill cute little mammals. Even Brown-headed cowbirds. If they are native to their habitat and doing their thing, they’re alright in my book. But there is something about the greater roadrunner that creeps me the hell out. If anyone ever questions if birds are truly related to dinosaurs, I point them to these guys. There are several traits that make roadrunners unsettling to say the least.
Their call sounds like a whiny dog. While there is no evidence to support my claim, I suspect it’s to lure you in to check on the dog and then BAM! They kill you.
They eat freakin’ rattlesnakes. And how do they kill them? By bashing the snakes head on a rock, of course.
Their heads bob around and when they are trying to sort things out, they do the little velociraptor head tilt thing like in Jurassic Park.
They lower their body temperatures at night, and then in the morning warm themselves in the sun to help with thermoregulation. Weird.
But even these freaky little weirdos are actually pretty cool. I wouldn’t leave my grandma alone with them, though.
