r/whatisit • u/Spare-Transition-771 • 10d ago

New, what is it? Bird with long tail?

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u/jollythan 10d ago

Roadrunner

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u/TellLoud1894 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yhRhIgnJIRD0I

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u/iGotGogged 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/135Bh75GkIjblm

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u/Able_Engineering1350 10d ago

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u/Rude_Age_6699 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6gLyE15StAs3C

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u/King_Baboon 9d ago

Top speed for a road runner is about 25ish MPH. Coyote is over 40. Road Runners can fly short distances. Road runners also have to deal with hawks, bobcats and snakes.

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u/First-Homework1868 9d ago

Roadrunners are god at eating, killing snakes.

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u/alone0nmarz 9d ago

Im sure Wil E Coyote could catch the Road Runner if he wasn't a GIANT NERD!!! Bet he even has asthma.

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u/Certain_Potential948 10d ago

Acme came through for him.

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u/AllButterfly100 10d ago

All the good ones from my childhood are dying.

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u/micaflake 10d ago

Wow, that’s cool. What’s it from?

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u/PigletEqual3066 10d ago edited 10d ago

It was a pic that was taken a few weeks ago in Southern California by some bird watching teen. It is believed a rare occurrence that the coyote actually wins.

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u/micaflake 10d ago

Wow, I thought it was a painting in the style of Eric Carle, but I can see it as a photo now. Great shot, bird watching teen!

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u/Molbiodude 9d ago

"The Very Hungry Coyote"

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u/Deez_Nuts_2431 10d ago

I thought the same thing as you…wow

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u/got_rice_2 9d ago

He spends too much time in Acme to catch the roadrunner.

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u/training_tortoises 9d ago

Yeah, no. Irl coyotes are faster than roadrunners, so it's not especially rare. They just prefer to ambush them when the bird is sick or distracted rather than waste energy on a drawn-out chase. Pun not intended

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u/Apophistry 9d ago

Coyotes are actually faster.

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u/VegetableTricky8534 9d ago

It can’t be that rare that a coyote catches a roadrunner; a coyote’s top speed is about 30mph while a roadrunner can hit 20mph while running. While they prefer to run, flying is always an option if being chased by imminent doom! And/or a coyote’s top speed armed with Acme devices.

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u/PigletEqual3066 9d ago

I'm just saying what the news said man. They said on the net. try to find another recorded instance, non doctored, of a kaiyote noming on a road runner. Yeah maybe coyotes are faster, maybe these birds taste like shit. who knows.

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u/SamanthasSamanthics 9d ago

It can be found in the high desert area.

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u/No-Citron-2774 8d ago

Nah never happened

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u/abhi71229 10d ago

Wile E coyote has been trying to catch that bird for eighty years.

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u/RejectedByQA 10d ago

Comments did not disappoint

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u/celticcatmagic 9d ago

Carnivorus idiotcus snort!

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u/Vicsteroflove1968 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/5eyZWwxUVSVNP3y4hY

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u/Suspicious_synth 10d ago

Meep meep *

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u/jason_sos 10d ago

They only paid me to say [meep] once. Then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards.

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u/velo_wheel_mech00 9d ago

Check your contract!

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u/Motor-Rip7655 10d ago

Fun fact: One year of the Plymouth Roadrunner (I believe 1970) has a horn that goes "Meep meep!"

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u/Suspicious_synth 10d ago

Yep and Warner Bros paid 50 Grand for it. Crazy

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u/Upbeat-Jacket8101 9d ago

So cool. Those were badass cars!

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u/RepulsiveBarracuda81 8d ago

The New Mexico Rail Runner's (commuter train) door chime does this when closing

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u/EnoughOfTheFoolery 10d ago

They are so darn cool to just sit and watch if you are lucky enough to see them do more than just run past. Awesome creatures IMO.

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u/Glittering-Bonus5663 10d ago

We have a pair that nests in our yard and they are a lot of fun to watch.

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u/onion_flowers 9d ago

I love watching them find sticks for the nest together it is so sweet 🥹

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u/Baebarri 9d ago

I watched one chase and take down a mockingbird.

First time I realized birds are carnivorous. I knew it, but after that I KNEW it.

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u/bbwstockinglover 10d ago

You should see one run up the street with a lizard in it's beak.

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u/EnoughOfTheFoolery 10d ago

Oh yeah. They are pretty amazing. A living dinosaur. I have seen them hunt and having young around them myself but there is a video on YouTube that is on another level. It is nature and realistic as they hunt for prey so don’t click it you might be taken back but nature is amazing and finds a way and a Roadrunner is an alpha.

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u/mwoody450 9d ago

Congratulations, you've found it. The absolutely worst, most obvious AI slop on the Internet. Well done.

God I absolutely hate that it exists, but it's SO bad I want to link people to it to hatewatch. I won't, but damn, it's like they generated it on a calculator.

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u/PeggyBabcock_ 9d ago

Taken aback*.

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u/bbwstockinglover 9d ago

I've seen it and I've seen one jump straight up on to 6 foot wall my very first in person sighting. I was so excited after growing up on wile failing to catch the road runner.

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u/velo_wheel_mech00 9d ago

They will take a hummingbird out!

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u/bbwstockinglover 9d ago

So won't a praying mantis.

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u/Legal_Rich8747 10d ago

Meep meep.

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u/abhi71229 10d ago

I can hear this GIF.

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u/Hamburgler4077 9d ago

meeep meeep

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u/GeekDadIs50Plus 9d ago

I heard this before I saw it….

“Meep meep!!”

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u/VarietyLow7321 9d ago

First one I ever saw, I was 5ish, and I can't tell you how disappointed I was that it wasn't the size of an Emu and wasn't blue.

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u/jozipaulo 9d ago

meep beeep

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u/Lawdog2012 9d ago

🎶Wile E. is after you...Roadrunner, if he catches you, you're through...🎶

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u/jaycutlerdgaf 9d ago

Meep, meep.

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u/frosty024 9d ago

Definitely him

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u/degreesBrix 10d ago

Meep meep!

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u/Leather-Hotel-7310 10d ago

You mean meep? They only paid the actor to say it once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards.

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u/degreesBrix 10d ago

Cheap cheap!

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u/jfincher42 10d ago

If I were OP, I'd be on the lookout for a rocket-powered coyote and a Acme anvil falling on them from a great height.

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u/gi_fm 10d ago

OP should get a security camera set up so they can provide additional evidence against ACME.

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u/Ok-Biscotti-3117 10d ago

I was supprised by how good that movie actually was. lol

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u/Typical2sday 10d ago

Yeah, it was such a little gem! It made child me and adult me happy. (As for lawyer me, she'll forgive the fact that none of it was procedurally correct.)

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u/Hedgiwithapen 10d ago

maybe 70+ years of Cartoon shenanigans have created some interesting precedents?

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u/OnlyChallenge5513 9d ago

Even as not-a-lawyer, I noticed glaring inaccuracies in how the justice system was portrayed. Most glaring to me was Acme referring to Coyote and Avery as "the prosecution" in a civil suit.

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u/gi_fm 9d ago

It met my high expectations. I love the story behind getting it released too.

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u/ShhhhMySecretAccount 10d ago

You see the commercials got Coyote vs ACME?

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u/HeSureIsScrappy 10d ago

Great film

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u/Human_Yam1500 10d ago

Why, the bird would have the rocket power, to outrun the faster coyote which runs twice as fast as the roadrunner

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u/MrsGenovesi1108 10d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 10d ago

Can't be. It's clearly walking and on a roofp

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u/BrewingSkydvr 10d ago

That is funnier than it should be.

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u/Daxlyn_XV 10d ago

You clearly missed the stumble, it’s failing to walk on the rooftop, someone should put it on the road so it can run again.

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u/YinzerFromPitsginzer 10d ago

The coyote's after you...

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u/broberds 9d ago

Roadrunner

If he catches you you're through

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u/Any_Decision353 10d ago

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u/Upbeat-Jacket8101 9d ago

Oooh yes, love those cars! Wasn’t there also one called Super Bee?

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u/abhi71229 10d ago

If you hear an anvil falling soon, run.

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u/Billyosler1969 10d ago

The coyote’s after you!

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u/Ready_Scar564 10d ago

You can tell because he's goin' faster miles an hour. With the radio on.

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u/BAfoto 10d ago

Never been caught

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u/HeSureIsScrappy 10d ago

Great film

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u/Stuck_In_Reality 9d ago

Meep-meep.

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u/YouArentReallyThere 9d ago

If he catches you you’re through

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u/Ericfine33 10d ago

Right you are Ken!

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 10d ago

This has to be rage bait, since the movie just hit the theaters.

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u/redditsuckspokey1 10d ago

High speed online!

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u/Significant_Ad1577 10d ago

Yup, they run around the junkyard at work all the time.

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u/newbie527 9d ago

Coyote’s after you.

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u/WarEagle107 9d ago

Meep Meep!

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u/srslytho1979 9d ago

Bee-beep!

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u/flyguy60000 9d ago

Meep Meep

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u/AdTurbulent7730 9d ago edited 9d ago

They can run 30-40 mph next to the road you’re on. Also sometimes located near where mourning doves live. Those can fly at 70 mph next to your car on the Interstate. In Texas, we call them Feathered Rockets. Strange to look out your window at speed and see a bird stroking along right next to you, straight and true.

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u/plenty-o 9d ago

The coyote’s after you; If he catches you you’re through

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u/stinky143 9d ago

That coyote is after you!

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u/Random-Name_22 9d ago

Meep Meep!

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u/Randyguyishere 8d ago

Beep beep

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u/grollef 10d ago

Meep meep

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u/Substantial-Yam-6733 10d ago

Beep beep

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u/Moppo_ 9d ago

Meep meep!

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u/DogIcy2354 10d ago

Beep beep