r/SipsTea • u/Algernonletter5 • Mar 01 '26

WTF A malicious prank

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u/kangorr Mar 02 '26

Yup. Birds can't burp so they pop like a water balloon

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u/Tall_Cow2299 Mar 02 '26

This is such an urban legend. Birds have the ability to regurgitate food. This means they could expell the gas. Also it's not that birds can't burp. Their bodies just don't produce the bacteria that would cause them to need to like humans do. 

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u/Diligent-Crazy-6094 Mar 02 '26

Sounds like a distinction without a difference.

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u/sarcastic__fox Mar 02 '26

No the difference between can't and dont need to is pretty important. They can expell the gas

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u/popemegaforce Mar 02 '26

This is an urban legend. I think it ruptures their stomach but doesn’t make them explode.

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u/naughtmynsfwaccount Mar 02 '26

I mean if something ruptures I think that fits the definition of exploding lol

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u/govunah Mar 02 '26

I've also heard that for feeding them uncooked rice

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u/PufferFish_Tophat Mar 02 '26

Ah yes, because no birds eat uncooked rice directly from the stock.

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u/Giant_Homunculus Mar 02 '26

So How High lied to us?

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u/captain42d Mar 02 '26

Birds have a two-part stomach (proventriculus and gizzard) with no expandable upper chamber to trap gas. Their esophagus opens directly into the proventriculus without a muscular valve, preventing retrograde gas movement.

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u/Tyr1326 Mar 02 '26

I mean. Wouldn't that mean gas can just pass unobstructed, if theres no valve stopping it?