We were forced to have a barbecue at Lake Tuggeranong Town Park. The
park is green and pleasant, with a sandy lakeshore beach, skate park
and playground equipment. Trees, shelters and barbecues round out its
parkly attributes. It rained.
Then adult swans beat up
juvenile swans. Skaters came to the rescue of the young fellers and
chased the adult swan away and sat quietly until the juvenile swan
managed to get back to its feet.
The Honolulu zoo says that black swans are 'belligerent, ill-tempered and territorial, they will not tolerate other swans, except their mates and young.'
Youtube also has a clip of a swan trying to drown a duck, which I won't
link to because that doesn't seem very sporting. I must say, I feel a
little less self-conscious about my general running away policy towards
black swans after reading all this internet wisdom.
Also, black swans really do have red beaks. With a white stripe. No teeth.
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No teeth? Really? I thought they'd be nasty enough to have grown them by now.
We have them over here too, self introduced I think (who would actually want to haul them across the Tasman?) but we know they are Aussies.
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