Feral Peacocks In Canada Are Attacking Luxury Cars Because They See Their Reflection In Them
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Feral peacocks in Canada are becoming a public nuisance because whenever they see their reflection in a luxury car they go nuts and start attacking it, causing thousands of dollars of damage.
There’s a joke about capitalism reflecting the worst of us somewhere in here, but I’m on deadline.
The birds are a particular problem in Surrey, British Columbia, and the cars are only the latest insult in a long string of avian wrongdoing in the area. Sure, peacocks are pretty, but did you know their shit apparently smells like the worst thing you’ve ever encountered? That and they quite literally stop traffic with their mating rituals, which entail enormous fans of feathers and lots of flamboyant masculine parading about. Oh, and loud shrieking. Lots of loud shrieking.
The cars, however, are one of the more expensive peacock downsides. Turns out these idiot birds are too hyped up on aggression to notice that their reflection is not, in fact, a rival peacock, and they attack it like it’s a fight to the death. Speaking to CTV Vancouver, one resident said that sometimes the car/peacock standoff goes for hours as the bird makes it way around every possible reflective surface on the car.
“They’ll get the front panel, the side panel, the rear panel and then work around to the other side,” he said.
Anyway, if you’d like to see what a peacock attacking a car looks like, here’s the video you’ve been waiting for. Make sure to tune in to the very end to see what a peacock sprinting down a road after its departing reflection looks like (spoilers: extremely lanky and very determined).