An amazing story came to my attention recently and it deserves a look-see….
As many as 5,000 blackbirds and 100,000 fish have been found dead or dying within 125 miles of each other in Arkansas, but state officials say the two massive kill-offs are unrelated. State officials have also reportedly ruled out a toxic dump and low oxygen levels as causes of the fish kill.
The drum fish were found washed along the banks of the up ashore Arkansas River near Ozark on Friday. “The fish kill only affected one species of fish,” Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told the Associated Press. “If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish.”
The fish washed up about 125 west of Beebe, where 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve. “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,” Karen Rowe, a state ornithologist, reported to local media.
A tough situation to explain…..but all scientific crap aside….I am have the answer…….
I live in the South and have visited Arkansas……maybe the animals realized where they were and took the honorable way out….HARI-KARI!
I think you may have the answer – I’ve always thought that most of the animal population of planet Earth is more honorable and decent than an interested extra-terrestrial would assume if he/she/it simply studied humanity… 😈
So true….and here is something that is not being reported…..dead fish and red wing blackbirds have something in common….water. Fish live in it and the birds nest in marshy areas….maybe they should try that as a working premise…..just a thought!
It is indeed a possible link, but then, as they say, other species of fish appear to be OK – maybe these fish are susceptible to something that also affects the birds… who knows (or will ever know), eh?
There is another 500 dead birds about 150 miles from the first site…….no fish yet…..could it had been a emc thing?