Question Come to Australia, where everything tries to kill you

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Hitchcock's the birds had nothing on these feathered arsonists.

That is somewhat insane... But they do say that everything there except the cattle are trying to kill people.

The cattle are only waiting for you to forget that they too are very dangerous!

MM2ss wrote: That is somewhat insane... But they do say that everything there except the cattle are trying to kill people.

There's sheep too!

Lately, I hear it's not even safe for the bats.

MM2ss wrote: That is somewhat insane... But they do say that everything there except the cattle are trying to kill people.

That’s sheep, it’s the sheep that aren’t trying to kill you.

The cattle actually have some of the highest kill rates, just behind horses and bees.

Nah, the sheep can be dangerous to those not acclimated to certain things...they can become bagpipes and haggis (both of which I like). As for the cattle, they fear me for they know what I will do to them...steak, burgers, tartar, ox tail soup...

One thing I found interesting is that the birds have figured out how to predate cane toads who the last I heard were an unstoppable wave that only humans could hold back. Makes me wonder if maybe the dingos might also have learned the trick.

It makes an interesting real-world experiment in short-term adaption. And long term I wonder if it causes an uptick in general intelligence as stupid predators kill themselves off eating poisonous toads while the smart one survives and pass on the trick to their offspring.

I remember reading about that bit with the cane toads. Seems the birds figured out they can eat from the belly side just fine and leave the backs. "Bird brain" may cease to be an insult at this rate...we will have to start being species specific.

Well I'm sure that most people when they hear bird brain think of the domestic chicken... Not the brightest bulbs in the lot, though the domestic turkey is supposed to be even more stupid.

Well, not sure if it’s fact, but I keep hearing that turkeys will drown themselves if left in the rain. They will look up, tilt their heads back, and swallow water, until they drown. Urban myth? Not sure.

I guess that is where snopes comes in handy. I know it is the urban legend I've heard about the white turkey. From someone who raised bronze ones, I have that turkeys will thrive where a chicken will starve.

I know people that raise turkeys and chickens, it doesn't happen. Though I recall a few reports out of the UK of starlings drowning themselves in groups. But it was not due to rain, they seem to have a herd mentality and if one goes into water that it can't get out of a bunch of others will follow it.

No matter where the flock is or what the flock the flock is doing you're safer in the flock until the flock is afflicted with collective insanity. People have the same basic issues, be part of the crowd or be considered odd and dangerous!

I am not "odd and dangerous"...I am "amusingly eccentric"...