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Culprit in Mysterious Elk Deaths Found
Life Science vai Yahoo ^ | 11/7/13 | Benjamin Radford

Posted on 11/08/2013 8:37:22 AM PST by Kartographer

A hunter stumbled upon a bizarre sight on a 75,000-acre ranch north of Las Vegas, N.M., on Aug. 27: the remains of more than 100 dead elk. Livestock deaths are not unusual, but so many animals dying off, and doing so in what seems to be under 24 hours, was puzzling to scientists.

Related StoriesOfficials with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish investigated the mysterious elk deaths and ruled out several possible causes for the elk deaths, including poachers, anthrax, lightning strikes, epizootic hemorrhagic disease (an often-fatal virus known to affect deer and other ruminants), botulism, poisonous plants, malicious poisoning and even some sort of industrial or agricultural accident.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: elk; livestock; newmexico; pondscum; wildlife; worstexcerptever
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1 posted on 11/08/2013 8:37:22 AM PST by Kartographer
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

New Mexico ping!


2 posted on 11/08/2013 8:37:47 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Pond scum of death


3 posted on 11/08/2013 8:40:08 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Kartographer

Yeah, sure. They always blame pond scum when...ALIENS...are involved.


4 posted on 11/08/2013 8:40:20 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
not saying it was aliens
5 posted on 11/08/2013 8:43:23 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: thackney

Pond scum? So, it’s all Democrats’ fault?


6 posted on 11/08/2013 8:43:49 AM PST by MCH
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To: Billthedrill

Yes!!! did they inspect the elk anuses for large expanding satellite antennas that eject when the elk flatulate? [I KNOW that isn’t a word...but it should be.]


7 posted on 11/08/2013 8:44:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

IF...IF...if they would have only signed up for Obamacare!!! ;-)


8 posted on 11/08/2013 8:45:50 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Gaffer
Of course not. Did one single proctologist contribute to this report? I though NOT!

Pond scum. Weather balloons. Yeah, you guys can't fool us.

9 posted on 11/08/2013 8:46:30 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: elkfersupper

Culprit in Mysterious Elk Deaths Found

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Elks are going missing? I’m blaming you. You have been putting on weight, haven’t you?


10 posted on 11/08/2013 8:47:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Kartographer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation#The_Lady.2FSnippy_mutilation


11 posted on 11/08/2013 8:47:59 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Billthedrill

I think THAT is the question !! Why is it that no Proctologists are included on the inspection/investigation teams. I mean, we are faced here with decades of stories about how Bubba here or Emily there got anally probed when abducted, and no one....no one has thought to wonder why.

I myself think a proctologist’s perspective on this matter would be extremely enlightening. It could be the difference between a squeak or a big BLAPPPP for all of us, couldn’t it?


12 posted on 11/08/2013 8:50:22 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Kartographer

New Mexico has a thing about anuses (anii?)?


13 posted on 11/08/2013 8:50:38 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: Kartographer

Gored by members of the Loyal Order of Moose.


14 posted on 11/08/2013 8:50:43 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Roswell is too far away for this to be aliens.

Although there have been some mighty unexplainable anal-probes in Demming, NM lately.

So perhaps they are spreading.


15 posted on 11/08/2013 8:52:03 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
....there have been some mighty unexplainable anal-probes in Demming, NM lately. So perhaps they are spreading.

Were any perforated dog bodies found among the elk carcasses?

16 posted on 11/08/2013 8:53:31 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy; Billthedrill
It was this guy.


17 posted on 11/08/2013 8:54:25 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Kartographer

Wonder what the fine to the rancher was for that one, or what the fine will be.


18 posted on 11/08/2013 8:55:24 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Kartographer

I had to do what I had to do OK? Quit bustin' my balls over it!'

19 posted on 11/08/2013 8:56:39 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Kartographer

i think it was those “odd fellows”.


20 posted on 11/08/2013 8:56:56 AM PST by left that other site (.)
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