Is it true that a budgie’s intestinal tract is long enough to wrap around the globe?
The globe has a circumference of ~40,000 km. Let’s assume a budgie’s intestinal track is 1 mm in diameter and 40,000km long. That gives a volume of ~30 m[sup]3[/sup].
So no.
No. That’s absurd. Where did you hear that? A budgie’s intestinal tract is maybe a few inches long.
Only if it’s a very small globe.
I don’t know about budgies specifically, but a quick google shows that the length of the intestinal tract in birds varies from roughly 3 times the bird’s overall length to 20 times its length, depending on the species.
globe
ɡlōb/
noun
a spherical or rounded object.
“orange trees clipped into giant globes”
synonyms: sphere, orb, ball, spheroid, round
So for a small “globe” I say it’s plausible.
Let’s not be too dismissive too quickly! I, for one, am willing to attempt the experiment. Who’s with me?! Step one: acquire grant funding for circumnavigation of the globe…
Or, might be plausible if you have a sufficiently large budgie.
Wrong. It’s even in the bible about the length of item in question.
Bravo!
But… wouldn’t the budgie die if you did that? :eek:
Budgies are native to Australia, so I have my doubts that the length of its gut is mentioned in the Bible.
We’ve decided to have the budgie put down…
Birds’ digestive tracts range from three times body length in primarily carnivorous species to 25 times body length in herbivorous ones. The average budgerigar/parakeet is about 7" long, including the tail feathers. So by the most generous calculation, its intestinal tract would be less than 15 feet long.
From this, we can calculate the size of a budgie that would have a digestive tract long enough to wrap around the world: It would have a length of 1,660 miles, or about 3/4 of the way across Australia.
It still wouldn’t make as much of a fucking mess as my not-continent-sized cockatiels.
I tell you what. If a parakeet that size could talk, you goddamn would listen.
I’m sorry, are you objecting to the math or lack of fiction in determining the truth of the matter?
“That’s not a bird. That’s a bird.”
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