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kimish
reply to post by miniatus
But, but, The elk in the link you provided didn't all die together, over night.
JayinAR
reply to post by miniatus
Nice try. But you just provided a link explaining how 250 Elk died over the course of a few months. 75% of which were young calves who had not developed the digestive abilities to handle so much wheat.
Debunk fail.
The elk, 200 of which were calves, died because they had gorged themselves on winter wheat for months, Kirsch said.
miniatus
kimish
reply to post by miniatus
But, but, The elk in the link you provided didn't all die together, over night.
The reason these elk died all together is explained in the news .. it's to due to the heat, they were a herd all together not far from a water source and the disease is fatal as early in as early as 8 hours after bitten by an infected insect.. it's also very contagious..
But I get you .. clearly it must be aliens because that makes lots more senseedit on 9/18/2013 by miniatus because: (no reason given)
Officials with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk, apparently all within a 24-hour period, in rural New Mexico.
jeep3r
reply to post by Arken
Interesting thread, S&F ... independent of whether or not there's a link to anything 'otherworldly'. However, there seems to have been a similar case in Wyoming back in 2004:
Elk deaths baffle New Mexico game officials
In 2004, something was slowly killing hundreds of elk in Wyoming. Wildlife biologists and veterinarians ruled out viruses, bacteria, heavy metal poisoning, brucellosis and wasting disease before finally determining that the culprit was a native lichen the elk had ingested because there was nothing else to eat.
(emphasis added)
Could it possibly be a natural cause? Apparently no mutilations, lights in the sky or other encounters have been reported ... but let's keep an eye on this, just in case it turns out to be something else than what happened in Wyoming some years back!
edit on 18-9-2013 by jeep3r because: text
miniatus
it's also very contagious..
miniatus
Either way, I think it's far more logical to believe this disease that kills within 8 hours, which is also extremely common this time of year is responsible for the deaths.. far more logical than Aliens.
Although elk have been known to be exposed to these viruses, there is no evidence that elk are ever affected by the disease.
Other wildlife, like mule deer, elk, and bighorn sheep could be exposed to the disease but are usually not stricken like white-tailed deer. No evidence of an outbreak in these species has been found at this time nor in past outbreaks in recent years.
Members of the Cervidae family (deer, elk, moose, reindeer) are the most susceptible. Mule deer and white-tailed deer are the primary known hosts of this virus. Elk have been documented with EHD occasionally.
usually