# Budgies **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 16, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732 "2015-11-16T20:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![1liesalot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b9e5f3/32.png) [@1liesalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1liesalot)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/1 "2015-11-16T20:36:44Z")
Is it true that a budgie’s intestinal tract is long enough to wrap around the globe? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/2 "2015-11-16T20:43:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/3 "2015-11-16T20:45:45Z")
No. That’s absurd. Where did you hear that? A budgie’s intestinal tract is maybe a few inches long. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/4 "2015-11-16T20:46:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/5 "2015-11-16T23:31:15Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/6 "2015-11-16T23:33:53Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/7 "2015-11-16T23:36:50Z")
Or, might be plausible if you have a [sufficiently large budgie](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nPBHMmLI6Bc/TUcLfBepCnI/AAAAAAAAE8w/RKr-Ff9Cigk/s400/brugge.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![1liesalot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b9e5f3/32.png) [@1liesalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1liesalot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/8 "2015-11-20T08:17:34Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > 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. Wrong. It’s even in the bible about the length of item in question. ---
**Author:** ![1liesalot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/b9e5f3/32.png) [@1liesalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1liesalot)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/9 "2015-11-20T08:19:58Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > 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… Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/10 "2015-11-20T08:31:38Z")
But… wouldn’t the budgie die if you did that? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/11 "2015-11-20T09:27:03Z")
> [@1liesalot](#): > > Wrong. It’s even in the bible about the length of item in question. Budgies are native to Australia, so I have my doubts that the length of its gut is mentioned in the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/12 "2015-11-20T15:56:12Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > But… wouldn’t the budgie die if you did that? :eek: We’ve decided to have the budgie put down… ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/13 "2015-11-20T16:07:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/14 "2015-11-20T16:47:31Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/15 "2015-11-20T16:52:13Z")
It still wouldn’t make as much of a fucking mess as my not-continent-sized cockatiels. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/16 "2015-11-20T16:55:57Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > 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. I tell you what. If a parakeet that size could talk, you goddamn would listen. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/17 "2015-11-20T16:57:11Z")
> [@1liesalot](#): > > Wrong. It’s even in the bible about the length of item in question. I’m sorry, are you objecting to the math or lack of fiction in determining the truth of the matter? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/18 "2015-11-20T16:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > I tell you what. If a parakeet that size could talk, you goddamn would listen. “That’s not a bird. _That’s_ a bird.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/budgies/737732/19 "2015-11-20T17:23:22Z")
> [@1liesalot](#): > > Is it true that a budgie’s intestinal tract is long enough to wrap around the globe? > [@1liesalot](#): > > Wrong. It’s even in the bible about the length of item in question. **Moderator Note** **1liesalot** , while we have been having some fun with the original question, I should inform you that trolling is against the rules of this board, and joke questions are not allowed in the General Questions forum. It’s obvious from your posts and your username that at this point you are just making stuff up. This is closed. Don’t do this again or you risk losing your posting privileges. Colibri General Questions Moderator