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    Post The angry Australian animal Australians are actually scared of

    The angry Australian animal Australians are actually scared of.

    Australia has a reputation for terrifying, deadly animals, from brown snakes to redback spiders to buff red kangaroos that can disembowel you with their feet. Fortunately, most of these hell creatures will won't start anything if you just leave them alone. Unfortunately, magpies do not extend the same courtesy.

    Also known as "spring" in the U.S., swooping season is in full swing in Australia, adding just one more reason for everyone to stay indoors right now. Every year from early August to late October, the Australian magpie loses its tiny feathered gourd and starts indiscriminately dive-bombing anything that comes within 50 to 100 metres (164 to 328 feet) of its nest, as seen in a video that went viral this week.





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    Almost as bad as their Drop Bears.

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    Anyone who has lived around mockingbirds knows the feeling. They do exactly the same thing. We used to have a beautiful big Burmese-mix cat named Margaret Kitty who would walk back and forth along the top of the block wall in our back yard and the mockingbirds would come swooping down and hit her, but she refused to acknowledge it. Then she would lie on top of the shed while they continued to attack her. We would eventually have to go rescue her, although I told the wife that it was obvious what she was doing - just biding her time, waiting for one of the birds to hesitate at just the wrong second and then she was going to chomp it. I wanted to watch her do it, but I was afraid they'd put out an eye or otherwise seriously injure her before she got the chance.
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