The most evil animals of Australia? Forty!

And they have already gone hunting

We heard a lot about terrible Australian animals - giant spiders, snakes, crocodiles. But in the spring, in September and October, the Australians hunt, it would seem, harmless magpies: birds attack pedestrians, runners and cyclists. People hide behind the helmets, and the authorities release instructions on how to avoid forty attacks. "Medusa" tells about the most evil animals of Australia.

“Every year in the spring, we, the Australians, walk along the street, putting a bucket on the head and home -made helmets of ice cream containers. We carefully walk under the awakening trees, ” says the author of National Geographic, Lula Morris. -The main part of the year forty-fathers do not pose a threat to the Australians, but everything changes in the spring. And this year the season began earlier. ”

Usually attacks take place in September and October: males are forty, seeking to protect their chicks, see a threat in people. Moreover, in order to angry the forty, it is not necessary to approach the nest close to the nest-the fathers protect the territory within a radius of 100-150 meters from it.

In 2017, the season began earlier - the first attacks were recorded back in August. A resident of Randwick, the suburbs of Sydney, Emily Bolton Smith said that the aggressive forty attacked her several times; The bird with a beak scratched the woman to the blood. Then the rangers began to hang warning signs in Randwick.

In the first three weeks of August, 288 attacks were recorded in Australia alone, in which 48 people were injured. Messages about aggressive magpies are collected by Magpie Alert . Judging by the statistics of the project, most often - in 2/3 cases - birds attack cyclists; In second place are pedestrians.

In mid -September, Magpie attacked two children in the city of Perth. The bird scratched the face of one child and damaged the eye of the second. After that, the Australian authorities killed a bird; She was "lounged humanely", since she "clearly posed the danger of society." The natives of the injured children were against the murder of forty.

The Australians themselves cannot kill or injure forty, it is illegal . All that remains them is to defend themselves. The media and the authorities release recommendations : not to provoke birds; do not approach the nests (ideally - avoid places where the magpies are found); not throw anything towards the birds and their nests; get off the bicycle near the habitat of forty; Do not try to “save” the chicks lying on the ground - they are in order, and, most likely, parents are watching them.

Australians are also advised to put on wide -brimmed hats and sunglasses, as well as wave a stick above their heads (some cyclists attach plastic strips to the helmets). Someone sticks artificial eyes on the back of the head so that the Magpies think that they were watching them-and they were afraid to attack.

Scientists argue that forty has good memory - they are able to remember the faces of people for years. This is advised to use it for the good: if you make friends with the bird, feeding it, it will no longer attack you. And he can even introduce you to his chicks.

But a good memory also has the opposite side: if the magpie remembers you as a “bad”, it will attack again and again.

Sultan Suleimanov