T-Rex: Any story where birds evolve into the dominant species on the planet and develop civilization MUST account for how they poop!
T-Rex: CANCEL ME IF YOU MUST, but it's true!!
T-Rex: Because I'm sorry, but birds don't have conscious control over their bowels and poop simply comes out when it's ready. And while I'm not saying it's IMPOSSIBLE to build a civilization for people who will poop anywhere and everywhere without even realizing it, but I do think it has some challenges. And those challenges MUST be addressed for your fiction to be believable!!
Utahraptor: Surely if you're imagining birds ruling the world, you can imagine they develop better bowels.
T-Rex: Sure!
T-Rex: But you HAVE to do the work! I need a line - and it can be a short one - where a character says "as you know, professor, we all evolved a sphincter with conscious control some time ago." It SOUNDS easy, but have I EVER read those words in that order before? Not once. Not once!
Off panel: As you know, T-Rex, we dinosaurs developed conscious control over all our various holes a while back, which is how come we're not pooping right now.
T-Rex: THANK YOU, Utahraptor.
T-Rex: I did know that
