Predators don’t take only the internal organs, removed with surgical precision, and leave no blood pools or tracks.
These cases have been baffling ranchers and investigators for decades now, and there are thousands of them on record, all with the same hallmarks.
I’m not advocating that aliens are doing it. I’m just saying that these cases are completely unlike ordinary predation, and have no rational explanation.
Have any of these ranchers tried putting up some motion-activated, IR cameras when these things start up?
Is there any interesting footage around?
Small varmints do take internal organs, eyes, a$$holes and can leave the dried hide almost hollow. I remember seeing possums run out of the body of a dead cow. Not all cattle that die in the pasture (for whatever reason) are torn to shreds and dragged around, some are but not all.
An initially uneven cut, as from a predators teeth or a birds beak, can come to look like a scalpel cut after a few days, or even less, when the tissue stretches either due to drying or bloating.
These cases have been baffling ranchers and investigators for decades now, and there are thousands of them on record, all with the same hallmarks.
Sorry. I just don't buy that. I remember a report by a forensic pathologist back in the 80's who visited many of these supposed "mutilation" sites. He cited case after case where the animal's body was surrounded by bird droppings, animal fur consistent with coyotes on nearby fence barbs, etc, and the rancher would be standing right there insisting there was "no sign" of predation or scavenging.
The biggest "mutey" flap started during the recession of the early 80's. I don't think that's a coincidence, nor that we're starting to hear similar stuff now. When people are under unusual economic stress, formerly normal things, like dead cows, can start to seem strange and unaccountable.