Incredibly smart roosters have captured the Hawaiian island (5 photos)

Hundreds of years ago, the Polynesians brought to the island of Kauai, which Hawaii, wild roosters and hens. In the 1950s, the authorities plan turn the island into a huge mega farm. However, the hens had other plans for life and become nuggets they did not plan.





In the 1950s, Polynesians came up with an ingenious thought. They decided to turn the island of Kauai into a huge farm. on the island and so lived wild chickens, which felt great there. businessmen brought hundreds of thousands of broiler chickens to the island and began to breed them. Business boomed until a hurricane destroyed the farm in 1980. Homemade chickens escaped from captivity and began to mate with wild ones.



After these events, the number of chickens on Kauai began to grow. just exponentially. They feel empowered the owners of the island. Chickens and roosters feed on garbage and insects.





Tourists are happy with such a neighborhood and consider it exotic. And here The locals don't like chickens very much. First, roosters all day crow. When there are several thousand of them, the hubbub is simply incredible. Secondly, birds like locusts destroy entire gardens, plucking grass and cutting off the leaves.



In addition, it is impossible for ordinary people to kill wild chickens. Feral, of course, you can, but it is very difficult to distinguish between them. population birds are controlled by the municipality of the island, which cannot cope with task. The fact is that chickens get smarter every year. They have learned bypass traps, do not fall into traps and have even learned to recognize poison.



Residents of other islands in Hawaii are careful to ensure that chickens from Kauai do not leak in any way.