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The roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. [25] The roadrunner was made popular by the Warner Bros. cartoon characters Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, created in 1949, and the subject of a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts. In each episode, the cunning, insidious, and constantly hungry Wile E. Coyote repeatedly attempts ...
Roadrunners have four toes on each zygodactyl foot; two face forward, and two face backward. [17] The toes are brown in color and have pale gold spots. [5] Greater roadrunner walking in the Mojave Desert, California. Although capable of limited flight, it spends most of its time on the ground, and can run at speeds up to 20 mph (32 km/h). [16]
The Road Runner speeds by with a Beep-beep and ruffles the coyote's fur. Wile flips the signs to read "Road-Runner" and "Fastius Tasty-us", and winds up his legs, followed by his body, and chases the Road Runner. When the Road Runner sees the Coyote chasing him, he taunts him and gears into superspeed (leaving a "TOING!" in his wake).
The Road Runner taunts his nemesis by dodging at the last possible moment, allowing the coyote to slam into the rock floor. The chase moves to the real roads, and the Road Runner taunts him with a Beep-beep before blasting into Mach 187, disappearing beyond the 10 mile horizon in only 6 frames of film, causing Wile E.'s entire jaw to hang open ...
Introduction: The Road Runner is "zipping along" by a train, and the camera zooms in and then freezes to display his mock Binomial nomenclature in Dog Latin: Velocitus Terminus. When the cartoon restarts, the Road Runner leaves the train and runs onto the main roads, with the coyote watching from above.
Hopalong Casualty is a 1960 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, directed by Chuck Jones. [2] The short was released on October 8, 1960, and stars Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. [3]
While birds, including raptors, wading birds and roadrunners, and mammals are known to prey on reptiles, the major predator is other reptiles. Some reptiles eat reptile eggs, for example the diet of the Nile monitor includes crocodile eggs, and small reptiles are preyed upon by larger ones.
This was the debut of the Coyote/Road Runner pairing and set the template for the series, in which Wile E. Coyote (here given the mock genus/species name in faux-Latin Carnivorous Vulgaris) tries to catch the Road Runner (Accelleratii Incredibus) through many traps, plans and products. In this first cartoon, not all of the products are yet made ...