if you give birds bicarbonate of soda they blow up when they eat it? tell me why please.
202423
Birds don't blow up when you feed them bicarbonate of soda.  They also don't blow up if you feed them uncooked rice.\n\nExcess gas build-up in the gastrointestinal system is not a lethal situation for birds.  They may not release the gas in one single belch as many mammals do, but they are certainly capable of slowly exuding the gases as they build up.\n\nOne thing that might prevent loud/sudden erectations is the bird system of a crop and gizzard before the main stomach.  There are a couple of potential chambers that could act to slow the release or trap bubbles of gas for longer.
361666
EXSQUEEZEEE  ME????\n\n  BAKING SODA??????
520266
of Butterflies??? that makes sense but i know you wanted food...so ...my answer is gas from a soda??
299055
hey talking to me should cheer you up! lol jk... but guess what? margarine is only 1 molecule away from being plastic. seriously. not like that's particularly funny, but it's interesting!! if you leave margarine out for flies or bugs, none will come to it. it will just sit there, like plastic. eating margarine is like melting down a kid's sippy cup and spreading it on your toast. lol just thought you'd like to know...
167890
No because digestive acid has a lower pH than coke.  Also, the coke would enter the bloodstream.
57509
Have you noticed that what we usually call "bird poop" is a soft, somewhat watery substance with whitish and darker parts?\nWell, birds, in contrast to mammals, do not have different body orifices for the excretion of final products of digestion (feces) and final products of kidney activity (urine). They have a cloaca. The last part of the digestive tube is called _coprodeum_. The paired ducts from the kidneys open right after this section, and this area in which both ducts come together is called _urodeum_ (the same area also receives the products of the gonads, because they don't have separate reproductive openings either). The last sector of this duct is called _proctodeum_ and as you may have guessed, urine is mixed with feces and forms that interesting substance that usually falls on our new clothes :-P\nIn addition, the urine of birds is not liquid as ours is. Birds don't have urine bladder, and their high metabolism benefits from not wasting water. Therefore they excrete uric acid, a semi-solid substance. That's the whitish part of bird poop. The dark part is the product of digestion (feces).
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A small amount of sodium hydroxide is probably neutralized in their digestive system.  Plus, if you are adding it to a butter, you may actually be reacting the caustic with ingredients in the butter (fats, fatty acids, etc...) which will just make the butter salty.  Also, caustic soda reacts with CO2 in the air to form Sodium Carbonate pretty readily, which is harmless.  I'd try another "poison".
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If you ask me, and I'm still a student in high school, kids shouldn't be allowed to purchase soda at school, especially at a young age.  Soda can make kids jittery, over-anxious, and hyper because of all of the soda in it.  Along with the sugar high comes the crash, in which kids get really cranky and tired.  Soda is bad for your teeth, as well as your nutrition, and I can't see any benefit from soda.  Water and juice taste just as good, but are better for you.
519226
Alka Seltzer has always worked great for me. If there was a serious issue of it harming people then it would have been pulled off of the shelves long ago.  The only thing I have heard bad about Alka Seltzer is to NOT give them to sea gulls because they drink the salt water and the seltzer mixed with the salt water explodes the stomache in the sea gull and they die.  I live in Myrtle Beach and people have tried this repeatedly just for kicks and I have yet to see a sea gull fall to it's death..  If you are really concerned about your health when taking Alka Seltzer then I would reccommend going to their website and looking for the "contact us" button and let them know of your concern.
515786
it's the breakdown of food that creates gas. alka seltzer or bicarbonate is recommended.
132522
gases are in general more soluble in cold liquids, so less of the dissolved carbon dioxide is lost from an iced glass of Coke vs. one at room temperature.  I've also noticed that drinks with artifical sweeteners tend to go flat faster, but I have not figured out yet whey it seems like the presence of large amounts of sugars affect the solubility of the CO2 yet.
140861
Yea they eat it stupid.\nIts mainly for the larvae, the babies. Ofcourse the adults eat it too.
643413
Chances are they have a visiual cue to the colour of the berries. Its really a co-evolutionary thing. The tree wants to spread its seeds so it signals to the bird with bright red berries for example....come and eat me. Also many birds have very acute vision.....think of vultures flying high above the plains scanning for carrion. Animal senses can be very different from ours.\nCheers.
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Hello Chipmunk, I'm a fish! YAY!!!! I like talking animals, they're so much better than the dumb ones. What was your question again?...........erm.........oh yeah, I think coca-cola would be fine for chipmunks like yourself, but as I'm a fish, I prefer Pepsi.
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I'm no vet, nor do I know anything about the gas chambers used for animals. Its possible they might use a different gas for animals than they do for humans. However, when I took my budgie (who had a large tumour, and no quality of life) to the vet to be put down, they used gas to put him to sleep and then gave him a lethal injection.
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Nothing.\nWhat happens w/ regular soda is that mentos have a large surface area of a matte glaze to which the CO2 gas molecules can attach. and they sink to the bottom of the bottle, ejecting the soda out. If there's no gas to attach to the mentos, nothing happens.\nThis is a process called nucleation.
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Don't birds eat them?