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Chockeh wrote on 2011-01-04 00:53
Wouldn't it be funny if they all come back alive as zombies?
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User495 wrote on 2011-01-04 01:12
Quote from Chockeh;275040:
Wouldn't it be funny if they all come back alive as zombies?
also reminds me of the Simpson's Movie when they put the dome in (the ceiling/glass thing)
that'd suck if someone was outside and got hit by a dead bird
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Lolicon wrote on 2011-01-04 01:16
2 words.
OH DAYUM.
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Meikeru wrote on 2011-01-04 02:27
Now there are a bunch of fish dead too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads
Maybe the Mayans were on to something?
That's surely what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas. Just as the calendar nudged a year closer to that fateful date, birds began falling from the sky in Arkansas and a massive fish kill occurred some 125 miles to the west.
Roughly 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land near Beebe, a small town in northwest Arkansas, and observers spotted the fish kill near the town of Ozark.
No one seems to know just yet what caused the two die-offs. But theories abound.
In a statement Saturday morning, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission quoted staff ornithologist Karen Rowe as saying that such events have happened before around the world: "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
Because it happened New Year's Eve, some officials suggest that revelers shooting fireworks may have spooked the birds, to the point that they died en masse from stress-induced cardiac arrest.
"It is unlikely they were poisoned," Rowe said, "but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin." Tests were to begin Monday.
Daily Citizen/Warren Watkins, via AP
Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum fish discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.
UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC that preliminary necropsy results from several birds show that they died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs," though what caused the trauma remains uncertain. According to Dr. George Badley, their stomachs were empty, so they weren't poisoned, and they died in midair, not upon impact with the ground.
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User495 wrote on 2011-01-04 02:58
[Image: http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110103/capt.2a59a110f1b442a9a63b82fa8925a377-2a59a110f1b442a9a63b82fa8925a377-0.jpg?x=382&y=345&q=85&sig=ha3_Geep1D9sIGSyvSLFog--]
this guy looked kinda happy
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Meikeru wrote on 2011-01-04 02:59
He was obviously mauled my a flock of pigeons growing up.
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Kazuni wrote on 2011-01-04 03:37
Wait, one source said "more than 1000" and the other said "5000"?
Uh, yeah 5000 is more than 1000, but really?
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-01-04 04:27
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Wait, one source said "more than 1000" and the other said "5000"?
Uh, yeah 5000 is more than 1000, but really?
Guess it's hard to count swarms of dead birds scattered over a large area. If the 5000 article was written later than the 1000+ article it could be new numbers came in.
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Shanghai wrote on 2011-01-04 04:29
Poor birds. D:
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jking012 wrote on 2011-01-04 09:16
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-01-04 09:31
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the Core?
no
it's just that three birds crash into a window when the cat looks at them
two died, and one survived (with brain damage) and flew away
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Navy wrote on 2011-01-04 22:26
Quote from Kazuni;275233:
Wait, one source said "more than 1000" and the other said "5000"?
Uh, yeah 5000 is more than 1000, but really?
thousands more were found dead..
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Taycat wrote on 2011-01-05 10:25
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Navy wrote on 2011-01-06 11:01
ALIENS!
or something like natural disease or poisoning
OR ALIENS!
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Cannibal wrote on 2011-01-06 11:03
OR... TENTACLE MONSTERS.
AKA ALIENS.