Farms in India have gain out to the authorities after repeatedly being attacked by opium - addicted parrots .
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh say their opium crops are being deflower by parrots who keep return to raid their farms in an attempt to get high . The farmers have been guarding the field day and Nox to protect their poppy , but the birds are uncoerced to put on the line it all to get their pecker on the opium , which is being farm for medical aim .
Playing loudspeakers has also go bad to rid the farms of the birds , whose opium trouble is too far developed to have a mo of haphazardness dissuade them .
A video shows the birds attacking the harvest and making off with opium pods in a seldom seen bird - establish drug heist .
The parrot are creating monumental losses for the farmers in the Neemuch district , NDTV report .
" One poppy prime give around 20 - 25 grams of opium . But a large group of parrots feed on these plant around 30 - 40 time a day and some even fly aside with poppy pod . This impress the produce , " one opium grower told NDTV .
" These opium - addicted parrot are wreaking mayhem . "
This is n’t the first meter parrots have attacked opium farms , it ’s an on-going trouble in the country . The first reports of the raids were in 2015 , and they have continued ever since .
The parrots wait until Farmer slit enter the opium poppy pods so as to mature them , at which point they start their flak . In 2017 the government ’s narcotics department make out a admonition about the drug - hook birds , after opium theft started occurring in several different area .
The parrots are surprisingly driven and sophisticated in their plan of attack .
" Usually , the parrots would make sound when in a group , " one farmertold The Mirror in 2017 . " But these raspberry have become so smart that they do n’t make any noise when they swoop on the fields . The birds set about chirping when they fly away with opium pods .
" We have tried every trick potential to keep the razz at bay tree but these freak keep follow back even at the peril of their living . "
[ H / T : Vice ]
