Forget Bambi. Forget It’ a Wonderful Life. One of the earliest movies I remember watching as a child was “The Birds.” Scared by beejeezus out of me, it did! Watching the birds go after people as they hid in cars and phone booths … well that certainly got my adrenalin pumping.
And now – possibly – we know why the birds originally attacked, which was the inspiration for the movie. According to CNN,
In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Bargu argues that “toxin-making algae were present in 79 percent of the plankton” the birds ate. The toxins contained “a nerve-damaging acid, which causes confusion, seizures and death in birds.”
That’s some scary stuff!
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