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5. They seem to fly well enough to avoid dogs and coyotes.

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 09:19 PM

Mar 2014

I think they run to distract larger predators like coyotes away from their nests or whatever prey they were stalking.

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Your whole childhood was a lie! [View all] In_The_Wind Mar 2014 OP

Indeed. I still don't have my flying car. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #1

I just don't understand. All those Saturday mornings, now this. In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #2

I don't car if it flies. I want it to fold up into a briefcase! mucifer Mar 2014 #16

What are you Boom Sound 416 Mar 2014 #3

Sometimes! In_The_Wind Mar 2014 #11

And I used to feel so sorry for poor old Wile E. nt LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #4

Me, too Art_from_Ark Mar 2014 #15

They seem to fly well enough to avoid dogs and coyotes. hunter Mar 2014 #5

U & I are so focused on *age* - why is that?!1 nt UTUSN Mar 2014 #6

Stock 115 Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2014 #7

Another Great Roadrunner... Tom Ripley Mar 2014 #9

niiiice Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2014 #10

Way late on this thread..... mimi85 Mar 2014 #13

The terminal velocity of Wile E Coyote is about 124 mph Brother Buzz Mar 2014 #12

Roadrunner had to deal with that ACME crap from Haliburton. kairos12 Mar 2014 #14

When we were kids, Brigid Mar 2014 #17