Reminders to the human race of how much more powerful “Nature” is than its technology are never a bad thing, so one has to laugh that Tokyo is unable to control its crows, which are eating up its fibre-optic cable links.
Crows have discovered that the broadband cables, which are strung from telegraph poles across Tokyo, are the perfect consistency for building nests….Engineers called out to repair crow-ravaged cables say that the centre of destruction is generally around junction boxes, where an average of 30 cables meet and provide rich pickings.
Following earlier problems, the city had trapped 11,000 crows in a drive to reduce the population. They were, however, immediately replaced by crows flying in from the countryside.
There has to be a horror movie in there somewhere … Perhaps it isn’t the cockroaches that will take over from us.
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