Mass Suicide of birds Jatinga Assam: Animal Suicide Mystery

There are many mysteries on animal suicide is unsolved. Can’t imagine animal can suicide too.

Here is one whose happens in India almost every year.

• Jatinga is small tribe in Assam and there are around 2500 people’s lives. Its mysterious event of migrating birds and also local birds commit mass suicide. It is totally insane to hear that birds have been committing suicide which is not normal one and it is happens at specific spot around 1.5 to 2 km. The word suicide is not preferring to use because of some myths or couple of reasons.

• After monsoon season, the time of Sept to Nov and occurring on dark nights, there are confirmed that 44 species of birds in Jatinga transformed into death-zone that particular between 6:00 to 9:30. One strange thing is that the birds are plunge towards the lights and street light of cities.

• They are villager who are actually killing the birds by some superstition like ‘spirits flying over the sky to terrorize them’ and they captures with bamboo and beating them to the death.

There are two theories to explained this incident.

1. In the 1950, Ornithologist, It is confirmed that this is combination of several things like cloud, fog, high altitude and high speed of winds leads to disorient state (disorient is mental state means that it not knows about their location and identity, date etc..) and attracted the lights of village as a source of flight stabilization.

2. The weather of that surrounding leads to changes in magnetic quality of underground which causes the birds to disorient state.

• The Indian Gov take steps against villager about awareness and educate of this phenomenon and reduce 40% deaths in birds but not completely gone thus mystery remains unsolved.

• This is not only place where it is happening other places like Malaysia, Philippines and Mizoram state of India.

What do you think about this mystery??