Editing Roadrunner (section)

==In media==
The roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico.<ref>{{Cite web |title=State Bird {{!}} Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State |url=https://www.sos.nm.gov/about-new-mexico/state-bird/ |access-date=2023-08-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> The roadrunner was made popular by the [[Warner Bros.]] cartoon characters [[Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner]], created in 1949, and the subject of a long-running series of theatrical cartoon shorts. In each episode, the cunning, insidious, and constantly hungry Wile E. Coyote repeatedly attempts to catch and subsequently eat the Road Runner, but is never successful. The cartoons led to a misconception that the call of the roadrunner is "meep, meep" because the roadrunner in this cartoon series made that sound instead of the aforementioned sound of a real roadrunner. In some shorts, the Road Runner makes a noise while sticking his tongue out at Wile E. Coyote, which resembles its actual call. The cartoons rely on a misconception that a roadrunner is much faster than a coyote. In fact, a coyote's fastest sprinting speed is {{convert|40|mph|km/h|order=flip|abbr=on}},<ref>{{cite web| last = U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service| title = The Coyote| work = Big Bend National Park| access-date = 9 June 2022| url = http://www.nps.gov/bibe/naturescience/coyote.htm}}</ref> which is twice that of a roadrunner's at {{convert|20|mph|km/h|order=flip|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Lockwood1" />