Dozens of dead birds were found laying around the city of Falkoping, Sweden, on Tuesday. The investigation found that they had all died from ‘external blows’. Internal bleeding was evident upon performing a necropsy.
Thanet, England, is now reporting up to 40,000 ‘Devil Crabs’ scattered along the Kent Coast.
New Zealand is reporting hundreds of dead Snapper fish in Coromandel.
I’ve created a map of the latest worldwide reports that have come in about unexplained animal deaths. Minimize and pan through, you will see that places from New Zealand to Brazil are reporting strange deaths:
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What’s causing these animals to turn up dead? Can a cold front be to blame for the deaths? Sure ice storms and hail can cause the types of injuries we’ve heard about the thousands of dead birds that have been found. But what about the dead fish in Brazil or Florida?
A cold front has been reported all throughout the United States and Europe, so high altitude ice/hail can be a possible explanation for the deaths. Can the cold front be responsible for changing ocean temperatures that could have killed the crabs and fish?
Full source: CNN
22 comments(CNN) — A large number of dead birds were found in the city of Falkoping, Sweden, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to a press release on the website of the Swedish National Veterinary Institute.
Autopsies were performed on five of the birds. The institute said they died due to “sudden, hard external blows,” according to the press release. They had no signs of infection or other illnesses, and there were no external signs indicating what killed them.“We have determined that the birds have died from severe internal bleedings caused by external blows,” said the Institute’s Marianne Elvander.
A similar unusual incident occurred in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. Thousands of red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found dead over a square-mile area in the town of Beebe.
In a separate incident, some 500 red-winged blackbirds, starlings and sparrows were found dead Monday morning in the southern Louisiana community of Labarre.