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thehoopiestfrood:
They're pretty big and scary and strong. I've been attacked by swans while sitting in a car. They tried to get in the sunroof and pecked the windows! This is because we were eating chips in the car because we were afraid of being attacked by birds if we sat and ate them on a bench by the lake. It turns out they could smell the chips even in the carpark! Can birds actually smell? They KNEW anyway!
Also I think it's illegal for anyone to kill a swan apart from the Queen, or only Royalty can eat swan, something like that. It'm pretty sure it's illegal to kill or injure a swan for us common people anyway. :P All swans belong to the Queen or something. Someone else will know better.
0bsessions:
That so makes me want to eat a swan. I have never even considered the notion of eating a swan, but knowing that in another country, only royalty can do it makes me want to broil one up bad.
thehoopiestfrood:
I think you could eat a swan if you're not Royalty if you were being fed it by the Queen at a dinner or something. However I don't think they are actually killed to be eaten by anyone nowadays, but again, I may be wrong.
Blue Kitty:
i hear their shit is toxic, as in it can poison lakes
at one boy scout camp we were allowed to kill any swan we saw with a shotgun so that it would not poison their lake
Inlander:
--- Quote from: thehoopiestfrood on 30 Apr 2007, 10:20 ---Can birds actually smell?
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The vast majority of bird species have very poor smell. The old line that you shouldn't handle a bird that's fallen out of a nest because the mother will smell human on the bird and reject it, is untrue: rescue those poor fallen nestlings! Birds do, however, have incredibly acute eyesight.
--- Quote from: thehoopiestfrood on 30 Apr 2007, 10:20 ---Also I think it's illegal for anyone to kill a swan apart from the Queen
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Correct! I'm pretty sure that's just in Britain, though. I don't think Queenie owns any of our swans here in Australia. Incidentally, the native swans in Australia are black! In my opinion they're much prettier than white swans, because white swans are usually actually yellow and muddy and mucky looking. As everyone knows, stains don't show up on black clothes nearly as much!
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