00:00What the cluck is happening here?
00:05Welcome to Weird But True, your chicken coop for the strangest stories from the post.
00:09Hold on to your nuggets because this next viral video has everyone online squawking.
00:22The bizarre clip from the Philippines shows chickens just hanging out.
00:27You might be wondering, is this how birds get over their fear of flying? Not so fast.
00:33Social media users wondered if it was an old-fashioned superstition, or maybe even a voodoo ritual.
00:39Others couldn't resist a dirty pun, writing,
00:42Those are well hung.
00:44Never mind.
00:45It turns out it's actually a clever hack to protect the animals from blowing away in a storm.
00:49You see, we're coming to the end of typhoon season in the Philippines,
00:53And a family that lost 10 chickens this summer was not about to make the same mistake again.
00:58So, they wrapped up their fine, feathery friends in plastic bags,
01:02And suspended them safely from the ceiling of their outdoor shed.
01:06If you ask me, an IKEA bag never looks so chic.
01:09The Philippines, which has a population of more than 116 million people,
01:19Is located in the dangerous typhoon belt.
01:22This year alone, they were hit by 21 powerful tropical cyclones.
01:26Typhoons occur in the western Pacific Ocean,
01:28With sustained winds of 75 miles per hour or more.
01:32Earlier this month, Super Typhoon Feng Wang struck the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.
01:38Just look what the monster storm and it's 115 mile per hour winds,
01:42Did to this pedestrian bridge.
01:51Yikes.
01:52After seeing this, the idea of hanging your chickens doesn't seem so bird brained.
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