"The forest is hot and still, apart from a raven’s repeating caw. The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. It smells. Weirdly, there are no signs of buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers. "
Bolding mine.
Yeah,gogogophers there’s nothing to eat there for cattle.
Yep Harney Co. Oregon is pretty solidly in the northern most portion of the High Desert Basin (location of ancient Lake Bonneville)that covers most of Nevada and a large chunk of Utah. Cows, not being a native animal frequently die of thirst or starvation or predation, nothing special about it except maybe the number of bulls in this case. Can’t account for ranchers claiming it must of been aliens except they gotta claim something for insurance? Anytime I have to go through that part of Oregon, I always get a hostile and isolated vibe if I stop for gas/coffee/potty break. Its always seemed like a weird little corner of the state.
http://www.skinwalkerranch.org/links.html
Anyone been following Skinwalker Ranch?
Hulu has a special on it. Pretty odd goings on .
Other relevant reading including the Incredible Bouncing Cow.
“BAASS, created specifically for the Pentagon contract, conducted research both from Bigelow Aerospace headquarters in North Las Vegas and an infamous Utah ranch, formerly owned by Robert Bigelow (ownership has since transferred to Adamantium Real Estate, who manages the property on behalf of an anonymous owner). Commonly known as Skinwalker Ranch, the 480-acre property has been the site of reported cattle mutilations, UFO sightings and “large, ferocious animals with piercing yellow eyes” that bullets couldn’t injure. From 1996 to 2004, Bigelow investigated paranormal phenomena at and around the ranch under the umbrella of his now defunct research group, the National Institute for Discovery Science”
Like I said odd.
Why was Harry Reid involved in it? A pork project?
" the US Department of Defense “Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program” (AATIP) put his documentary team into “overdrive.” According to the Times, the program was created at the behest of Nevada senator Harry Reid and most of its $22 million budget was funneled to Bigelow Aerospace, a company founded in 1999 by the billionaire hotelier Robert Bigelow, a close friend of Reid"
Read the book Shadowlands and you can start to realize why the locals might not take too kindly to outsiders since the end of 2015.
Some years ago a show on the Discovery Channel featured surveillance of a dead elephant in Africa (IIRC, it was ill and had been humanely dispatched prior to the start of the show). One of the first scavengers to discover it was a hyena, and it really couldn’t make any progress on the elephant’s tough hide. So it ended up going after the anus. Andrew Zimmern would have been proud.
Beavis and Butthead would be laughing right now.
Heh heh buttmunch heh
The preferred terminology is cattle mutes.
Urban legend that was well debunked decades ago takes in credulous and inaccurate public broadcasting station reporter, and subsequently is picked up by NPR, apparently equally credulously, is the real story. Which turns out to be a little less interesting, but should be worthy of a follow-up story on NPR, including apologizing for being so careless in their research. I mean, no one at either the local or national level raised their hand and said, “isn’t this an instance of the cattle mutilation urban legend playing out?”
As someone who regularly hears reporting by Anna King, I’m not that surprised that she was taken in. Not the sharpest reporter in the deck.
No rancher is ever going to publicly admit to any hint of negligence or irresponsibility that may get in the way of an insurance compensation. Strangely, the lost animals are also never in the “Well, Bessie was old and infirm, was going to cull her soon anyway…” group of the herd. They are instead touted as young, prime, best-of-breed…
It’s all about chasing compensation.
Apparently they didn’t even notice that, as DrDeth noted earlier, the story describes the presence of a scavenger in the same paragraph in which it says there was no sign of scavengers.
Because, Florida gets first dibs on all of the human misfits.
I’m missing what was boneheaded about the experiment. It was debunking the claim that no natural process could have produced a carcass that looked like that.
It would be good if we looked back at The Master’s wisdom in explaining the phenomenon, which endures even decades after.
Wrapped up with a perfectly logical, natural cause.
All hail Cecil!
It was me. Sorry.
I was trying something. Didn’t quite work out.
Chupacabra made it out west.
I doubt you read any part of this thread. If you go back and read it is pretty well explained.
Its been like that since the 70s, can you give me a summary of the story?