Please cite a reference
2006-09-12 22:00:22 · 22 answers · asked by jrobin330 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No, it's a myth.
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/asktheexpert.php/49.
2006-09-12 22:31:40 · answer #1 · answered by SweetPea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The internet is full of these type of stories of exploding seagulls. The variants are: Alka Seltzer, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda on bread, bread soaked in vinegar, bread soaked in any carbonated fluid, raw bread dough, rice, the bass notes of a loud boom box. For every webpage where it states that seagulls can be exploded in this way, there is another page debunking the idea. I think it's an urban myth, otherwise it would be a well-known popular pastime for teenage boys in coastal towns.
2006-09-12 22:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not achieveable. look on the chook's anatomy. It swallows nutrition and gadgets (yeah, not consistently nutrition) into its crop, an organ contained in the throat section, which receives distended even as finished. The crop has some digestive fluids in it (chook spit, with the point to communicate) and the chook mushes up nutrition in there to regurgitate it into the mouth of its chick or mate. Birds are made to regurgitate. If the chook swallows something that seems now to not be digestible, and under no circumstances useful for grinding up its nutrition (they swallow rocks for this) then the chook will in basic terms regurgitate it. They do all of it the time. So how is fizzy alka seltzer going to reason a catastrophe? it would want to overflow, to be positive, and may want to briefly intervene with digestion (because it does in human beings) by employing neutralizing abdomen acid. i'm really positive that as quickly because it all started fizzing, the chook might want to spit it out. No harm finished.
2016-11-26 20:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by mckuhen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth would you want to feed a seagull alka seltzer????
2006-09-12 22:02:45 · answer #4 · answered by Walter W. Krijthe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baking Powder blows them up, I suppose Alka Seltzer might do the same, or it might just cure their hangover.
2006-09-12 22:08:04 · answer #5 · answered by badgerbeetle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Otherwise city officials in many coastal towns would use this as a method of killing unwanted flocks in outdoor restaurant patio and in front of retail store parking lots. It would also be used on unwanted massive pigeon flocks all over the world's big cities and parks.
2006-09-12 22:03:11 · answer #6 · answered by viewAskew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that if u put a grain of dried rice in bread and a bird ate it they would explode due to the rice expanding in their intestines
2006-09-12 22:11:38 · answer #7 · answered by jizzumonkey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I do know this.
What's black and white and red all over?
2 seagulls fighting for a cracker.
2006-09-12 22:08:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have heard that this is true but it is illegal as seagulls are protected so if you got caught you would be fined
2006-09-12 22:09:07 · answer #9 · answered by Edward B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the question I asked, it's in my profile.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ajkixklm67BdFLuDslwMPl0gBgx.?qid=20060907082040AAAIeRr
2006-09-12 22:08:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋