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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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: elk; livestock; newmexico; pondscum; wildlife; worstexcerptever
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...
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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.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:40:08 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Kartographer
Yeah, sure. They always blame pond scum when...ALIENS...are involved.
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:43:23 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: thackney
Pond scum? So, it’s all Democrats’ fault?
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:43:49 AM PST
by
MCH
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.]
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:44:22 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...
IF...IF...if they would have only signed up for Obamacare!!! ;-)
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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.")
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.
To: elkfersupper
Culprit in Mysterious Elk Deaths Found
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Elks are going missing? I’m blaming you. You have been putting on weight, haven’t you?
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:47:49 AM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Kartographer
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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--)
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?
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:50:22 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: Kartographer
New Mexico has a thing about anuses (anii?)?
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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")
To: Kartographer
Gored by members of the Loyal Order of Moose.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:52:03 AM PST
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
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?
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:53:31 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Alex Murphy; Billthedrill
It was this guy.
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:54:25 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Kartographer
Wonder what the fine to the rancher was for that one, or what the fine will be.
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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.)
To: Kartographer
I had to do what I had to do OK? Quit bustin' my balls over it!'
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posted on
11/08/2013 8:56:39 AM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
To: Kartographer
i think it was those “odd fellows”.
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