It's that special season in Australia—you know, when stoned parrots drop from the sky in bunches. Every year around this time, the parrots begin eating some as-yet unidentified substance that renders them unable to fly or do much of anything. "They lose all balance and we do find them fallen out of trees and the sky," a worker at a hospital in the Northern Territory tells AAP. About eight a day are brought into the hospital for a parrot detox.
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