Fats Terrifying Wildlife Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster. Some background: I live in Australia, where we have curlews ([http://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/bush-stone-curlew?_ga=1.171074528.1907458922.1486392496]). They're pretty much totally defenseless; all they can do is scream at you and hold their wings out to make themselves look bigger. It's also springtime here (i.e. breeding season). There's a breeding pair of curlews that live in the garden outside my building, and their chicks hatched 2 days ago. Okay, so last night I was on my way out (walking past the garden where the curlews were hanging out), when two fats came up the path. As they approached the curlew mother, she gave them a warning screech, as in "don't come any closer". Of course they ignored her and went closer. This is when the curlew mother lost her shit and started screaming at them. The fats of course ignored this because they finally spied the little curlew chicks with their piggy little eyes. One of them began to pull its phone out of its pocket, presumably to take a photo of the chicks - the mother was still screaming at them, and the one with the phone stepped closer to her. At this point I was a little way away from them, so I yelled at them to stop stressing the curlews out. This made them step back far enough that the curlew stopped screaming. One of them oinked back at me that it hadn't realised the curlews were there (obviously bullshit as the mother had given them a warning, and I'd heard them mocking the sound as they were approaching). I said nothing, although I wish now I'd called them out on their bullshit. The fats disappeared around the corner of the building, but I didn't leave because I had a feeling they'd try to come back and get that picture. Sure enough, I hung around for about 10 minutes, then went to check around the corner. The fats were still there. They'd been waiting for me to leave so they could torment the curlews some more. I stood my ground until they left. Fuck fats. They put that poor mother curlew into extreme distress because of their selfishness, their goddamn piggishness. On a side note, I'm a final year vet student, and I know an animal welfare issue when I see one. They definitely caused that mother curlew undue distress, it just makes me so fucking angry. I've seen the same two fats stressing a possum out by blocking it in a small tree. They'd fed it an apple and were watching it eat, but were circling the tree so it couldn't leave (it was a Brushtail possum, which are only semi-arboreal and sometimes need to walk on the ground to get around). It's respiratory rate was definitely up, which indicates stress. I hung around that time too, to make sure they didn't try to pat it or some shit. Fucking fats.