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What Is Going On?
Topic Started: Jan 3 2011, 05:06 PM (738 Views)
James
Source:yahoo.com

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.

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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.

Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum 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 show that the birds died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs."

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Birds-fall-sky-Ark/ss/events/us/010311deadbirds#photoViewer=/110103/480/urn_publicid_ap_org2a59a110f1b442a9a63b82fa8925a377
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The Comedian
Multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs???? how on earth did that manage to happen?
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But I’ve also found that I’m able to endure. Overcome. And in the process grown stronger. Smarter. Better.”
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James
Don't know maybe a sonic boom from a jet.

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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0102/sonicboomplane_navy_big.jpg
Edited by James, Jan 3 2011, 05:22 PM.
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Alex
This whole thing is freaking me out a little.....
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Faro
Very interesting story. I'm leaning towards something like the sonic boom James mentioned.
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Alex
Maybe it was Wonder Woman's invisible plane.
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James
Could have been.
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Chris
Ah, I guess the Mayans were right. Sons of bitches couldn't even predict their own doom, but nevermind, they're disgusting. Even more birds and fish have died since, this really is strange.
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Hol-ee Jesus! What is that? What the fuck is that!

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The Comedian
Yeah It happening all over the world at the moment crabs have turned up dead in the UK and fish in New Zealand.
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Faro
My opinion - this kind of thing happens all the time. For some reason the first one stuck out, and was highly discussed in the media. That caused everyone else to take notice to the fact that this kind of thing happens from time to time.

It's the same thing happens when you learn a new word. Then you hear it everywhere. That's just my opinion.
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