(1) The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata), known for the yellow patch on its behind and its fondness for ham sandwiches, although they are primarily insectivorous. When hanging out, they prefer forests, both mature coniferous and mixed coniferous-deciduous ones. In winter the hardier ones look for fruiting shrubs and scattered trees like those found in parks, open pine and pine-oak forest, dune areas, and open streamsides, but the smart ones move into apartments with central heating and cable TV.
(2) A ham-sandwich-eating soul who gets more exercise with his jaws than with his legs, thus accumulating an Olympic-sized sit zone.
(3) Touron. Defined elsewhere. Look it up. (Hint — Wikipedia knows.)
(4) An accomplished but not physically imposing hiker who seems to accumulate more miles than anyone else with no fuss while remaining disconcertingly plump.
This case is something like that of the bumblebee, which is reputedly unable to fly because of its round shape and distracting body fuzz, but which does pretty darn well, thanks.
The cruel, joyous irony is that someone like said butter butt can keep ahead of you forever because, unlike your muscular, lean, wiry little starving self, the butter butt is not — ah, how shall we put this — starving, and can go pretty much anywhere and keep doing it pretty much forever and you can't, though you might rack up longer days and have a higher average mileage for the first week or so, but after that you end up in the hospital attached to the business end of a high calorie nutrient drip.
You do that while old butter butt stays out there and keeps on hiking in a happy cloud of multi-colored butterflies and bumblebees, whistling a happily-ignorant tune.
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