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Bison named Sparky survives being struck by lighting
News96.5 ^ | Jan. 11, 2016 | Samantha Jordan

Posted on 01/11/2016 9:54:08 PM PST by Daffynition

If bison had 9 lives, Sparky has used up eight of them.

This lucky bison is a resident at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa and managed to survive being struck by lightning in 2013.

According to a press release from the U.S. Department of Interior, Sparky's prognosis wasn't good and they weren't sure he would survive.

"But he proved us wrong!"

(Excerpt) Read more at news965.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weather
KEYWORDS: bison; buffalo; sparky
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To: beaversmom
Thank you for the link 'Mom.... **suspected father of three calves** ....uh huh ... absentee fathers....the scourge of civilization.


41 posted on 01/12/2016 4:18:59 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: Daffynition

That’s the way those Bison-Americans do. :(


42 posted on 01/12/2016 4:25:27 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: JoeProBono

43 posted on 01/12/2016 4:28:02 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: beaversmom
And it's not even hump-day, Larry.


44 posted on 01/12/2016 4:39:21 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: jocon307; beaversmom

Hey Jo

Beaversmom found an article that says *Sparky* got his name after the accident.

See post #37. :)


45 posted on 01/12/2016 4:47:10 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: Daffynition

Lol...naughty, filthy animals.


46 posted on 01/12/2016 4:53:42 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: r_barton
Beasty looking.


47 posted on 01/12/2016 4:58:23 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: r_barton

48 posted on 01/12/2016 5:00:07 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: Daffynition

Another sign that America can pull itself out of the present morass.


49 posted on 01/12/2016 5:05:25 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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50 posted on 01/12/2016 5:11:19 AM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Hunt us to extinction? Yeah, nice try.

Scientists: Bison in Illinois earlier (aren't you relieved?) [2005]


51 posted on 01/12/2016 12:25:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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