Dumb Dead Animal Panic Thread (Don't make any more threads about this) - Polidicks

[QUOTE=SockFC;27250533]^Because it's extremely colder where the birds usually are. Plus you're not really comparable to a bird, seeing as most of the time you're probably in a place with lots of heat.[/QUOTE] I saw a dead rat yesterday and it was frozen solid

[QUOTE=frost13s;27248881]So what? Who needs birds?[/QUOTE] The ecosystem.

I stopped giving a shit after they said it was cold weather

[QUOTE=Sinboxer;27250611]I stopped giving a shit after they said it was cold weather[/QUOTE] What would it have to be to make you start shitting again?

dead wildlife, dead wildlife everywhere

[QUOTE=frost13s;27250632]What would it have to be to make you start shitting again?[/QUOTE] Food

Dead birds in Kentucky? I think we all know who's to blame.

[QUOTE=Supacasey;27250817]Dead birds in Kentucky? I think we all know who's to blame.[/QUOTE] Spirit Sanders is unloading his Ethereal Shotgun on anything that flies near his sky barricade.

[quote] WASHINGTON – First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental. The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated. Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other. "They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science. Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery. In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California. On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada. "Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said. Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths. So what's happening this time? Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more. "This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end." Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment. The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.[/quote] So everyone quit whining. The reason we think it's a sign of some apocalypse is because we have the technology to instantly, and globally, learn of and discuss these common occurrences and assume they must be somehow connected. Source: [URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110107/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dead_wildlife_fact_check[/URL]

Figured it was along those lines.

Not surprised.

fuck those biologists they're always lying getting me pissed

Explains why there is media hype right now.

They're obviously trying to cover up for the aliens. In all seriousness, though, I expected this. I started to laugh at every new headline of a mass bird/fish/crab death. It was just like the earthquake scare last year.

[quote]The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.[/quote] That doesn't justify it, people should look into why, not just push it off like nothing happened.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;27252637]That doesn't justify it, people should look into why, not just push it off like nothing happened.[/QUOTE] [quote=article]The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.[/quote]

New World Order! Templars covering up an electro-magnetic super-weapon. :tinfoil: Don't believe their lies!

Except now people are thinking about animal extinction opposed to being completely oblivious to it.

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27252666][/QUOTE] A mass die off can't be a mass die off if your population has no mass to begin with. The death of a single blue whale is more detrimental to the species than the death of a million drum fish.

I said this exact same thing the other day.

its the north koreans

Why is this all getting hyped up though?

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;27252901]Why is this all getting hyped up though?[/QUOTE] The Internet.

I figured it was something like this, just the media getting all hyped about a common event. Same thing happened with the earthquake in Haiti.

I knew it.

No shit.

2010, Earthquakes; 2011, dead animals.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;27253247]2010, Earthquakes; 2011, dead animals.[/QUOTE] 2012, food falls from the sky

[QUOTE=Habsburg;27253253]2012, food falls from the sky[/QUOTE] Yummy. So Nature was playing Age of Empires 2 after all as animals and just pressing delete button to get more population cap space.

[QUOTE=Habsburg;27253253]2012, food falls from the sky[/QUOTE] No, it'd be something like: 2012, oceans mysteriously recede and rise several times a day, or 2012, strange grey and white masses drift across the sky.