Waxwing Drunk Birds

It all began when thousands of birds started crashing in Los Angeles area.Few crashing into windows.Hitting cars and other moving cars etc.People saw thousands of them falling from the sky.Many of the residents believed that its the judgement day.
Scientists took the birds and there sample to check what really was going wrong.Birds were sent to California Animal health and food safety laboratory.

Scientist examined the birds and came to a conclusion that.These birds live on a diet ,that comprises of 84% fruits.dining on overripe berries can leave them tipsy.They have large livers which compromises of 5% of Body mass can break down toxic ethanol before it causes serious damage.

Study showed that birds died as they ate to many berries.There is an expandable pouch in birds mouth that is used to store fruit.When fruit stays in the esophagus it ferments and produce ethanol.

Waxwings stored so much fruit that there liver could not keep up with the alcohol that was produced as much as 1000 parts per million,When they were finished them self carrying berries they get so drunk that they could not fly.Via