TheOldSchool
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Yaaaargh they come fer yer poppies and yer gold!!! Perhaps fer yer life!
The drug-addicted birds sit perched in wait until the morphine-rich area is exposed by workers slitting open the flowers' pods to help them ripen.
Video shows them retreating to high branches where they gorge on the plants leaving them sleeping for hours - and even falling to their death.
In 2015 drug raiding parrots were reported in Chittorgarh in the state of Rajasthan. According to farmers, the numbers of birds raiding their fields are increasing with every passing year.
Parrots high on drugs annoy farmers by plundering poppy fields to feed addiction
The drug-addicted birds sit perched in wait until the morphine-rich area is exposed by workers slitting open the flowers' pods to help them ripen.
Video shows them retreating to high branches where they gorge on the plants leaving them sleeping for hours - and even falling to their death.
In 2015 drug raiding parrots were reported in Chittorgarh in the state of Rajasthan. According to farmers, the numbers of birds raiding their fields are increasing with every passing year.
Parrots high on drugs annoy farmers by plundering poppy fields to feed addiction