I think what seals it is the "brrl, brrl, brrl!" sound they supposedly make.
It was pointed out on the discussion page that it's reasonable to suspect that this may be a joke legend: either a legend repeated because people think it's funny, or something they told the ethnographer just to see if he would buy it (as the article indicates, there is only one scholar who ever reported on such a legend, although he cites numerous sources).
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Date: 2008-09-11 06:30 pm (UTC)It was pointed out on the discussion page that it's reasonable to suspect that this may be a joke legend: either a legend repeated because people think it's funny, or something they told the ethnographer just to see if he would buy it (as the article indicates, there is only one scholar who ever reported on such a legend, although he cites numerous sources).