Animal Kingdom

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Most poopular · Birds

Public votes set the order. #1 is the most pooped.

Pigeon Birds

The racing bird, the message carrier and the one in every city square are the same species, changed only by who was looking after it.

Seagull Birds

Drinks seawater. Glands above its eyes strip out the salt and drip it back out through its nostrils.

Goose Birds

The teeth are not teeth: they are serrations of cartilage on the beak and tongue, for tearing grass. It does not make them friendlier.

Chicken Birds

Descended from jungle fowl in Southeast Asia, and now farmed on every continent except Antarctica.

Crow Birds

Recognizes individual human faces and remembers which ones treated it badly.

Duck Birds

Waterproof because it works oil from a gland near the tail through its feathers.

Flamingo Birds

Pink from the pigments in what it eats. Raised on a different diet, it stays white.

Ostrich Birds

Too heavy to fly, and fast enough on two legs that it does not need to.

Owl Birds

Cannot move its eyes in their sockets, so it turns its whole head instead — up to about 270 degrees.

#10

Penguin Birds

Wings evolved into flippers, which makes it excellent underwater and permanently grounded.

#11

Turkey Birds

Named after the country by mistake: European traders associated the bird with routes through Turkey.

#12

Peacock Birds

Only the male has the train, and what looks like a tail is actually the feathers above it.

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