What should roadrunner speed be

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Get the full experience Subscribe Today. The tail is broad with white tips on the three outer tail feathers. The bird has a blank patch of skin behind each eye; this patch is shaded blue proximally to red distally. The lesser roadrunner is slightly smaller, not as streaky, and has a smaller bill. The bird is terrestrial; although capable of flight, it spends most of its time on the ground. During flight, the wings are short and rounded and reveal a white crescent in the primary feathers.

During this chase, the Road Runner takes just 0. So all we need to know now is how long those loops are. They appear to be running on a single lane road, which tells gives us a width to work off of, as US interstates have a standard road width of 3.

Measuring this out, the Road Runner is running a loop around a circle with a 45 meter diameter, or a The circumference of this circle would be around meters , and since the Road Runner is lapping this in 0. Conveniently, this episode gives us an answer.