'The Birds' Mystery Solved: Was Poison responsible?

In The month of january -- if this appeared as if you could not cope with eventually without reading through in regards to a rash of bizarre bird deaths -- you could have been pardoned for adding 'The Birds' for your Netflix queue hoping of discovering methods to survive the approaching birdpocalypse. The 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film remains among the most frightening cautionary tales ever, if perhaps due to its mystery: Hitch based the film, simply, on the 1961 incident in Monterey Bay, California, where seabirds rammed themselves into houses. Half a century later, it appears the impetus behind the bizarre occurrence has been seen as. "I'm pretty believing that the wild birds were poisoned," stated sea environmentalist Sibel Bargu of Louisiana Condition College in Baton Rouge to USA Today, most probably while a thunderclap skyrocketed behind her. The reason for the poisoning? Not really a platinum blonde searching for revenge, but plankton. Based on Bargu and her team, who interviewed the contents of the stomach of turtles and seabirds obtained from Monterey Bay in 1961, "contaminant-making algae were contained in 79% from the plankton the animals ate." The contaminant produced was nerve-harmful, which meant the wild birds experienced from confusion, seizures and eventual dying. Based on USA Today, an identical contaminant wiped out four folks Canada's Prince Edward Island later, once they consumed contaminated mussels. Inside a circle of existence twist, the wild birds likely ate infected anchovies, which in fact had eaten the plankton. And just how did the plankton get infected themselves? Likely from leaking septic tanks, that have been installed in early sixties following the housing boom in Monterey Bay. [via USA Today] [Photo: Everett Collection] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook