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Wild (Non-Domesticated) Animal Mutilations?

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Animal mutilations- part two

Has anyone come across any reports of "wild" animal bodies being discovered showing signs of intelligent (!?) mutilation?
Has the incidence of domesticated animal mutilation reports decreased/increased since the Foot and mouth outbreaks?
 
..I'm not sure.. but in a similar vein did you see that thing on Chupacabra hunters on the telly last week ?

It was really good.. but far too late for me to be up watching tv in my pregnant state ... and I fell asleep !
 
Unfortunately (or not, depending on you viewpoint) the cattle mutilation phenomena isn't as prevalent in the UK when compared to the US.

On the other hand, I think that crop circles are down this year.;)
 
Foot'n'Mouth restrictions probably have a lot to do with the dearth of crop circles...

But check out Cryptozoology>What are British ABCs thread for some puzzling DEFRA behaviour with animal corpses which were apparently attacked by ABCs
(This page)
 
I have vague memories of one of the 'believer' groups of UFOlogists alleging that they'd found evidence of wild animals being mutilated in the UK, probably in the mid 90's.

I think it was this lot

http://www.ufomag.co.uk/

It was total nonsense of course, and they didn't seem to get an enthusiastic response even from the usual suspects.
 
Fortis said:
Unfortunately (or not, depending on you viewpoint) the cattle mutilation phenomena isn't as prevalent in the UK when compared to the US.

On the other hand, I think that crop circles are down this year.;)
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There's some compelling evidence that cattle mutliations are linked to a covert US government attempt to monitor the long term effects of radioactive fallout from A bomb tests in the 1950s. I'd be interested to know if similar cases have ever been reported outside the US, as the US cases are generally clustered in areas considered "downwind" of the test sites.
 
You can find details on the latest Montana mutes here:

http://www.earthfiles.com/earth313.htm

with some lovely up close pics of blowfly-ridden cows arses!

An interesting case is illustrated where it looks as though the cow was mutilated in the air, and then dropped, leaving quite a deep impression in the ground.

I don't think it's govt. tests, why leave the evidence lying around for people to find? They could just as easily take the livestock away and do their tests in the safety of some govt. facility, then blame cattle rustlers.

Looking through the Earthfiles site, there is a recent case of a cattle mutilation in Dorset, uk, on one of the pages.

I remember Tony Dodd's dead fox - had it's brain removed through a tiny hole in it's skull - I don't know what came of it.

There is also old folk tales of "elf-shot" cattle, and some researchers believe that it's based on sightings of cattle being struck by ball lightning or something similar. When grazing animals are struck by lightning, they can exhibit similar wounds, apparently.
 
Forgive me, but...

I am not at all convinced that there is anything extraterrestial going on with these mutilations.

I had always suspected some (pretty sick) individuals stilling their strange appetites this way, and the "The Cat Eaters" article currently on the front page makes me think even more so.

Just my 2 cents.
 
There is also a school of thought that says they're natural depredations, the clean incisions the work of insects etc.

We should examine every possibility, but the ultimately a theory has to explain all the observations. Cows are pretty hardy beasts. Sheep will die if you just look at them sideways.
A group of sickos would have to be well organised, equipped and to have evaded capture for however long the mutes have been going on, hesitantly I'd say the last 25 years, but possibly much longer.
I'm not sure how insurance companies stand on the matter. Do they pay up for mutilated livestock?
All eyewitnesses ever report are strange lights and electrical disturbances, along with one or two black helicopters, and that's not much to go on.
 
How about if the government program is actually clandestine within the government? Suddenly a pile of cow carcasses gets very difficult to hide, so drop them out of the chopper when the work is done. People are most likely to assume the missing bits are due to animal action. No-one will believe it's a cover-up or ET activity will they? Seems to have worked pretty well so far.
 
Sheep will die if you just look at them sideways.
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Tha dunt kna ar sheep up North lad! Them be hardy beasts. Stuck on t'moors in all weathers, wi nowt but broke down walls for shelter.

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Intelligent and Mutilation, two words I never expected to find sharing a night out.
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I've heard there's clubs in Leeds that cater for them tastes!
 
Sheep are satan's minions. Evil, evil sheep. I speak from bitter experience.

baa :p
 
There have been cases of cattle mutilation in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. That's just noth of Montana, so there's probably a connection.

As for whether the US Government/military would dump the remains instead of returning to a lab...If it seems like a bad policy and doesn't make much sense, wouldn't that make them the prime suspects?
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What do you mean Wintermute: "sheep are hardy"?

Them buggers are only hardy when it suits them, the moment a MAFF (sorry I mean Daffy) inspector calls, they keel over!!!

As the late great Henry Brewis put it:

Mary had a little lamb
I'm glad it wasn't mine
Cos' its fleece came out in handfuls
and it suffered from the pine...

(skip several verses)

.....it hung about for ages
And then it broke her heart
when it droped down dead last Wednesday
in the ring at Hexham Mart.....
 
I doubt it is the U.S. Gov't doing it. They collect samples on a routine bases for food testing etc anyhow. If I were them I would just use those samples for any clandestine activities.

I work on a dairy farm and know that we have a seperate sample of milk taken from each cow at least once a month, plus a more general sample of all of the milk combined about once a week IIRC.

So why would the Gov't go through the trouble if they already have all of these samples?
 
Utah's cat mutilations

Weird. Many cats and one dog have been mutilated in three seemingly methodical ways in Utah. Similar occurences were reported in Colorodo.

The Satanic cult theory, however enduring, is a bit much, but predators seems unlikely as well. Why would a predator(s) leave the animals in the owners yard or in plain view, and why would it/they just suddenly start killing cats now, but not before.

In defense of the theory, and perhaps adding interest to the case, wildlife investigators found an "animal den" near the neighborhood where the killings were concentrated.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/06/25/cat.mutilations.ap/

http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Sep/09232003/Utah/94978.asp
 
Seal mutilations

David Raven said:
Has anyone come across any reports of "wild" animal bodies being discovered showing signs of intelligent (!?) mutilation?
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This counts I think:

One seal found decapitated with letters carved in skin

By Karen Dandurant
[email protected]


WELLS, Maine - A grisly discovery in town last Thursday brought to nine the number of mutilated seals found in New England waters.

The seal discovered on Feb. 5 was decapitated and had the letter,s "M," "A" and "L," carved in its side.

Authorities identified the animal as a harbor seal. The significance of the markings on the seal are not yet known.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Law Enforcement Bureau officials said it is not typical to see cases like this in New England.

"We see West Coast seals shot," NOAA National Media Officer Mark Oswell said. "The fishermen don’t like them because they chase the salmon. The markings, like on the (seal found in Wells), I never saw before.

"We’ve seen skinnings before, but in the New England area, they are very uncommon," Oswell said. "We have seen dead and decomposed seals, but this is obviously done by an individual - with the head cut off and marked like that."

Local National Marine Fisheries Agent Chris Shoppmeyer said the seals found recently in Hampton, N.H., and Kittery were skinned expertly.

Oswell said they do not know yet if the mutilations are the work of one or multiple perpetrators.

Last week, four dead seals were found in Massachusetts, adding to the three skinned seals discovered in Hampton and Kittery. A fourth seal found in the region was too decomposed for accurate tests, but its death is being considered suspicious.

In the New Hampshire cases, the seals had been skinned and their male genitalia were removed, allegedly for sale as an aphrodisiac on the Oriental Black Market.

It appears seal killings are becoming more common all along the Eastern Seaboard. An injured harbor seal was found washed up on the beach in Ocean City, Md., on Dec. 26, 2003. The seal was found to have sustained injuries to its neck and mouth.

It was taken to the National Aquarium in Baltimore for treatment. The emaciated seal died several days later, and X-rays revealed several pellets of bird shot in the upper neck and face of the animal.

"Instances of mammal shootings along the Maryland coast are rare," said Special Agent Steve Niemi, NOAA Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement - Northeast Division in the Berlin (Md.) Field Office. "A case of this type has not been reported to my office in several years. We take these cases very seriously."

The National Marine Fisheries Service is asking that anyone with information about this incident call the NOAA Office for Law Enforcement at (800) 853-1964. Locally, calls can also be made to Shoppmeyer at 436-4414. Information can be given anonymously, and there is a reward for information that leads to the apprehension of those involved.
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/02122004/news/75502.htm

Image attached (its of the mutilated seal so be warned - although its not as bad as it could have been I didn't want anyone clicking on it by accident).

Emps
 
Plea over missing whale bones

Zoologists are seeking the public's help as they try to discover how two jawbones disappeared from a 56ft whale washed ashore on an island.

The skeleton of the fin whale was removed from the beach on Coll, in the Inner Hebrides, earlier this month.

It was taken to the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) research facilities at Granton in Edinburgh - but the 12ft long jawbones are nowhere to be found.

The disappearance was described as "a most unusual zoological phenomenon".

NMS would not speculate on the possible fate of the bones, which weigh about 250kg.

Already dead

However, a spokesperson said experts were "intrigued" about where they had gone.

It is thought that the fin whale was already dead by the time it arrived on the beach at Coll at the beginning of February.

The operation to remove it from the beach saw the blubber and soft tissue removed from the skeleton, which was transported by truck and ferry to Edinburgh three weeks ago.

Finding these jaw bones would help fill a massive gap in our collection
Andrew Kitchener
NMS curator of birds and mammals
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Staff at Granton will spend the next few weeks cleaning the bones before the whale joins the NMS research collections.

Andrew Kitchener, curator of birds and mammals, said that the NMS does not have a complete fin whale skeleton.

"Finding these jaw bones would help fill a massive gap in our collection," he said.

And he added: "The disappearance of these jawbones is a most unusual zoological phenomenon.

"We would be very grateful to anybody on Coll who might happen to stumble across them."

The fin whale is second only in size to the blue whale, the biggest mammal on earth.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/3578187.stm

Published: 2004/03/29 10:36:48 GMT

© BBC MMIV
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I remember Steve O'Shea mentioning (over at TONMO) that someone had chainsawed off the jaws of a number of whales they were studying the stomach contents of (I'll drop this in over there).

Emps
 
Emperor said:
I remember Steve O'Shea mentioning (over at TONMO) that someone had chainsawed off the jaws of a number of whales they were studying the stomach contents of (I'll drop this in over there).
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Posted here:

http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=25703#25703

and the relevant news article is:

Sperm whale butchered for teeth

17.11.2003
By ANNE BESTON environment reporter

One of a dozen dead sperm whales beached on Auckland's west coast has been butchered for its jawbone despite a 24-hour security operation to deter poachers.

Department of Conservation officer Karl McLeod said teeth from the jawbone could be worth up to 0 each.

"It's pretty disappointing, especially because we had security at both ends of the beach," he said.

But DoC was allowing a team of specialists to remove jawbones from the rest of the whales, which would be handed to local iwi under departmental protocol, said Auckland region DoC boss Rob McCallum.

The whales, stranded over a 5km stretch of west coast beach between Karekare and Whatipu at the mouth of the Manukau Harbour, drew a crowd of about 1500 people yesterday.

Spectators were being told to "look and not touch".

It is not known why the pod, thought to be mostly females with one young calf, became marooned on the beach but it was "a significant stranding event" of sperm whales, the like of which had not been seen for 20 to 30 years, Mr McLeod said.

Professor Scott Baker of Auckland University, who has taken DNA samples to carry out genetic testing on the animals, said the theory of whale stranding was that one animal, possibly a herd leader, got into trouble and the rest followed.

"Sperm whales are deep-water animals rarely seen close to the coast, but once a family member gets distressed they seem to follow the herd leader," he said.

Their weight meant they were often crushed to death on land.

"Once they are on the beach, it's all over."

Mr McCallum said cutting out the jawbones could take up to three days and burial a further two.

The animals, some around 10m long and weighing up to 12 tonnes, would be buried in the dunes.

A digger and bulldozer would be required.

"Strandings do occur from time to time but this is quite a big one in the scheme of things."
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Source
 
Frog mutilations

Otter theory over mutilated frogs

Wildlife officers are now working on a theory that otters are responsible for mutilating more than 100 frogs on an estate in Aberdeenshire.

Police launched a hunt for a human culprit after the back legs were torn off the reptiles.

But Grampian Police say experts have confirmed that this sort of feeding activity has been linked to otters.

The amphibians were killed after being captured in a pond on the Monymusk Estate near Inverurie.

Wildlife officers have since found a second batch of mutilated toads close to the site of the first find.

The mature frogs and toads were found on Sunday by a worker on the estate, which is owned by Sir Archibald Grant.

A second batch was discovered, prompting animal welfare experts to suspect that the culprits may be otters, who are known to target frogs for food.

Wildlife Crime Officer Pc David MacKinnon said: "The majority of the amphibians in this incident were toads which are known to have poison glands on their skin.

"This results in the otters biting the legs from the toads and skinning out the flesh.

"It therefore appears that these incidents, albeit not very common, are likely to be the work of otters and not a cruelty offence as first thought."

Frogs and toads, the natural prey of mink, heron and otters, are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/3621881.stm

Published: 2004/04/13 16:30:51 GMT

© BBC MMIV
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The tables are turned:
Second mutilated otter discovered
A second mutilated otter has been discovered in Cornwall within the space of a fortnight.
Environmentalists in the county said they were shocked and described the incident as "bizarre".

The animal, which had its tail and a leg hacked off, was found by a roadside near Callington on Tuesday.

It is not clear how the otter died, but the Cornwall Wildlife Trust said it believed that the leg and tail were cut off to be taken as trophies.

'Real shock'

Otters are relatively rare and protected by law. The South West's network of waterways, many undisturbed, provides an ideal habitat.

After the last mutilation, the Cornwall Wildlife Trust said it was a "wholly unacceptable practice".

Kate Stokes of the trust said: "We had real shock to find another such case. After the press coverage of the last one, we're surprised that people still want to do that.

"It is just bizarre, and begs the question of who would want to chop off its tail in this day and age."

The incident was reported to the police, the trust said.

Otters are popular with most people, but not all because they sometimes find easy prey at fish farms where ornamental carp can be worth hundreds of pounds.

The county has seen a series of attacks on otters in recent months.

As well as the previous mutilation, they have included one being found dead after it was thrown off a cliff at Perranporth, one being shot near Hayle and an otter pelt was found hanging on a fence near Looe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4378069.stm
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Derry Top Cop Visits Sheep Deaths Farm

By Joe Doran

Friday 22nd April 2005

Derry's top policeman yesterday paid a personal visit to the Co. Derry farm where hundreds of sheep have had their tongues cut out in a series of mysterious brutal attacks, the 'Journal' can today reveal.

In an unexpected visit, Foyle Commander, Chief Superintendent Richard Russell, met with Claudy farmer, Gerard McLaughlin, who this week hit out angrily at the police investigation into the case.

There was shock and outrage last week when Mr. McLaughlin put on show a number of ewes and lambs that had been mutilated on his farm sometime over the previous weekend.

The farmer claims 339 sheep have been culled over a 14 year period and insists he knows the identity of the person responsible.

However, police probing the series of mysterious attacks on the farm outside Claudy have yet to make any arrests.

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During his visit, Chief Supt. Russell promised Mr. McLaughlin his officers will investigate any new evidence that comes to light in a bid to track down whoever is responsible.

But despite the personal intervention of the district's highest ranking police officer, an angry Mr. McLaughlin last night said he remained unconvinced that anyone will be brought to justice for the sickening acts of animal cruelty.

He told the 'Journal': "Each time there is an incident, the police come out and tell me they will look into it. Then they go away and that is all we hear from them until the next time it happens.

"I've been told by the police that this is a criminal investigation and they are treating it very seriously - and yet nothing seems to be done to stop it happening again.

"On one occasion the police told us to keep the remains of the sheep for DNA testing. The sheep were taken away but again we heard nothing."

He claimed: "We know who is responsible and have pointed the finger on countless occasions but still there have been no arrests.

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"I'm sick and tired of being told by the police that, without any evidence, their hands are tied. I was so fed up with what I saw as a lack of action that I wrote to the PSNI Chief Constable to express my frustration. That's probably why the top man visited us today.

"I left Mr. Russell in no doubt that the constant harassment and the suffering of my animals cannot go on. I have sheep that are still alive today but with no tongues. It's a disgrace."

A police spokesperson confirmed the Foyle Commander did travel to the farm to reassure the McLaughlins of the PSNI's commitment to solving the case.

Chief Superintendent Russell said: "We have taken the investigation as far as we can based on the existing evidence.

"If new evidence does come to light, we will, of course, look at it."
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Animal Mutilations - A Global Phenomenon

In September 1967, Mrs. Lewis of Alamosa County, Colorado,
discovered the mutilated body of her pony, Snippy, which had been
drained of blood but there was no evidence of blood on the ground
nearby. There were precise "surgical" incisions into the pony's
flesh and, mysteriously, Snippy's hoof prints ended 100 yards from
the location of the body. In an area of about 5,000 sq. yards around
the pony's body there were circular impressions, similar to exhaust
marks. At the time of Snippy's death there had been a number of UFO
sightings in Alamosa County, accompanied by the discovery of at
least 4 cows and 4 horses - all having suffered almost identical
mutilations. Since the above events, many animal mutilations
following a very similar pattern have occurred. The excisions from
flesh are made with "surgical skill" and do not resemble the damage
caused by predators. Victims' eyes, ears, tongues, internal organs
and (especially) their genital organs are removed. Also, the bodies
are drained of blood and it has been observed that, on many
occasions, both domestic dogs and coyotes capable of eating any form
of carrion) refuse to approach the carcasses of mutilated animals.
See: http://www.thewhyfiles.net/mutilations.htm

Geoff Richardson
www.thewhyfiles.net
 
The horse "Snippy" was really named "Lady" (a local newspaper erroneously reported the name as "Snippy" and that name became widely-known as a result).
 
Unexplained sheep attacks 'caused by aliens in UFOs', farmers claim
A series of bizarre incidents involving sheep in Shropshire have led to farmers’ claims that aliens are attacking their livestock.
Published: 8:30AM BST 05 Apr 2010

Farmers near Shrewsbury claim to have witnessed sheep being “lasered” by unidentified light from UFOs.

They have linked the unexplained incidents, where sheep’s brains and eyes were removed, to the mysterious orange lights in the sky.

They have found sheep with “neat holes” while their brains and other internal organs were removed. Other animals have lost eyes or had their flesh “carefully stripped away”, usually on the left side.

Phil Hoyle, 53, who has spent almost a decade investigating how the livestock have died, said the UFOs were found to have roamed a 50-mile "corridor" between Shrewsbury and Powys.

Mr Hoyle and 15 members of the Animal Pathology Field Unit, claimed they witnessed UFOs at work last month while working during the night at a Welsh hill farm near Radnor Forest.

“The technology involved in these attacks is frightening,” he told The Sun.

“These lights and spheres are clearly not ours.

“They are built by technology and intelligence that's not from here.”

He added: “For a short while it looked more like a Star Wars battle.”

Next day he interviewed farmers and "all but one had some type of unusual disappearance of animals or deaths with strange injuries", he told the paper.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... claim.html
 
Headless seal carcases found on Nova Scotia beaches.

'It's bizarre': Almost two dozen seals found decapitated along Nova Scotia beaches
‘I was in disbelief … I’ve never seen anything like it’

Author of the article:
Samantha Pope
Publishing date:
Apr 16, 2021 • 17 hours ago • 4 minute read • 71 Comments

A Cape Breton resident has made a disturbing discovery: Almost two dozen decapitated seals dotting the shores of two beaches.

“I was in disbelief … I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Kimberly Hayman, who’s lived in Dominion, Nova Scotia for three years. “I don’t like to see any animals suffer. I was just really disturbed.”


While on a midday stroll along Big Glace Bay’s shoreline on Sunday, Hayman said she and some friends were startled to find 10 headless seals — all with holes in their torsos — sprawled along the pebbly beach. There was no odour and the bodies still looked pretty fresh, she said, with dogs curiously running over to investigate.

etc
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https://nationalpost.com/news/its-b...s-found-decapitated-along-nova-scotia-beaches
 
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