#309 – Pecker
Posted on February 28, 2013 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I wonder if there are some birds in city parks or that live near garbage dumps that live exclusively off of human food. Would they even know what to do with a worm? Do they shun the bush full of fresh berries?
Also, if you have read through the archives recently you may have noticed that I stole the concept for this joke from myself!
Tags: bagel, bird, worm
Birds cannot get nutrition from human food. So they’d all eventually die off.
Reviving an old thread to clarify something for other time travelers: isn’t quite that dire. Birds *can* get nutrition—calories for energy, protein, vitamins, etc.—from human food. What might give them trouble is trying to have a balanced diet made of human food. A bagel or some crackers could fill a bird’s stomach for an entire day, and then it wouldn’t get any variety.
There is, they’re called seagulls. They seem to be able to live off pretty much anything.
The birds/ducks at Disneyland seem to live off of human food. We have a department to provide them with proper food, but I’ve never seen the feeders, so I don’t know how many of the birds actually use them. And I still find myself chasing birds off of popcorn spills so I can sweep them.
Does that include Donald Duck? That would seriously mess with some kid’s head right there.
Donald Duck certainly lives off of human food. But I don’t have to chase him off of popcorn spills. He doesn’t spend more time onstage than he has to. His feathers make him very warm, so he needs to take a lot of breaks to cool off.