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swans, meek?

To: "Vader Willem Jan Marinus" <>
Subject: swans, meek?
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 22:26:03 +1000
Black Swans do have their moments too. In the early '80s, while
visiting a nature reserve north of Wellington in NZ, I saw a 8-9 year old boy receive a broken arm when a Black Swan he was teasing. The swan, after being chased for some 5 minutes, turned and gave the lad a crack on the arm with its wing. The parents of the boy then had the
hide to demand that the management put the swan down because of its
"vicious attack" on their poor little darling.

Carl Clifford


On 05/05/2009, at 10:10 PM, Vader Willem Jan Marinus wrote:





Here in Europe swans are far from meek. Kids are warned not to come too
close to the Mute Swans, especially when they have young, as they can
become very aggressive in the defense of their young, and have been known to break arms. And a pair of Whooper Swans not too far from Tromsø killed
an adult sheep, that also had strayed too close to the nest, and---as
sheeps are wont to do---had  run the wrong way, and got stuck at a
fence.
I have little experience with Black swans this was, only remember
that one
at one of your innumerable animal petting parks, which I visited
with my
small kids back in 1986, got mad at me and picked my glasses off my nose,
thereby effectively disarming me.


Wim Vader
PS of course I have not seen the advert concenrend
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