This Extremely Dystopian Video Of A Magpie Imitating Fire Engines Shows Where Australia Is At
The magpie was caught imitating the trucks that are trundling up and down the country.
Australia is in crisis. Much of the country is being ravaged by bushfires. More than half a billion animals have died. Our politicians are being heckled out of the towns they have selected for easy photo opps. And things are only going to get worse.
Of course, the scale of such crises mean that they begin to manifest themselves in more unusual ways too. The fires are now having a massive impact on the ecology and the biosphere of the country. Such an impact has ripple-effects for many decades, as well as influencing and warping the natural world in ways we couldn’t have seen coming.
For example? This video of a magpie imitating the wailing sirens of a fire engine.
Yep, the magpie has clearly heard so many engines come trundling up and down the road past it, that it has begun imitating the sound of the trucks.
Magpie been hearing so many fire trucks that he's started to copy the sirens…#AustraliaBurns #AustralianBushfires #BushfireEmergency pic.twitter.com/MZEzoq2Lxk
— Josh (@gobbles21) January 1, 2020
In some corners of the internet, the video is being treated with all the grace and lightness of touch that you’d expect from any other sweet animal video that goes viral online.
But most Australians know better. This isn’t just some frothy distraction. It’s proof that the bushfires have irreparably changed the country — and for the worse.