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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Too sad. Magnificent, healthy animals brought down by blue-green algae.
Don’t they sell blue-green algae as a health aid for humans? Hopefully not the lethal-for-elk Anabaena flos-aquae.
I liked that episode....
It’s the first one.
It's not that far from Dulce, NM, though. Lots of craziness reported there, too.
Thanks!
Just north of Chama I saw over two thousand Elk come down out of the trees to eat in the valley at dusk.
Sort of like in field of dreams..
WOW!
That must have been something to see!
LOL, ain’t it the truth.
Gack.
More alien BS for tourists. The fake Billy The Kid hideouts and extra grave are enough.
Not aliens. TEA Party’s fault.
State road 17 about 5 miles or so north east of the city and maybe two miles from the Colorado state line.
Over the July 4th weekend 4 nights.
Each night there we drove up paralleling an old narrow gauge rail road just about dusk they start coming out. A valley about two or three miles across and you are on one side just watching and man o man what a most beautiful sight.
GOD does some really nice work.
You only want to eat the healthy ones.
Those elk are illegally crossing the border. I’ve always thought those animals read state hunting proclamations and know where they are safe. /sarc
They got food poisoning at the Elks Club.
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