A swan was not messing around when it went straight for a wakeboarder and took him down. A video of the incident garnered a lot of attention last month when Rick Orr and Sean Conway shared the hilarious footage with Nature Is Metal, which posted it on Instagram.
“Terrortorial,” wrote Nature Is Metal in its Instagram post sharing the video. “This swan has had it up to here with these motherf***ing humans on these motherf***ing wakeboards.”
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In the video, a man (possibly Conway) is wakeboarding behind a boat when suddenly, a swan comes at him like a bat out of hell. Conway realizes the animal is coming up behind him and tries to swat the large bird away, but he loses his balance in the act.
He goes down spectacularly as a friend in the background laughs and shouts, “Oh my God!”
It’s possible the swan wanted the wakeboarder out of its territory. Nature Is Metal comments that the incident occurred during nesting season. The animals are known to be territorial and aggressive in defense of their perceived territory.
Watch as a terror-torial swan takes down a wakeboarder here:
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