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Fifteen flamingos found dead at Frankfurt zoo

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© Getty ImagesThe mysterious killing of 15 flamingos at Frankfurt Zoo has shocked staff and puzzled police, it appears.
The birds were killed over two consecutive nights, with their bodies found on Friday and then Saturday. Some had their heads cut off or torn off, while others were stabbed to death, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Zoo director Manfred Niekisch calls this a "shocking incident" and staff are "speechless". It is not clear who or what killed the birds, but stab wounds suggest it was done by humans. Police have referred to "one or several previously unknown perpetrators" and Niekisch believes animals such as foxes or raccoons could have played a role.

Strangely, very little blood was found at the scene. Police say they are considering whether the birds were stolen from the zoo and killed, before their bodies were returned. In 2007, three flamingos at the same zoo died in a similar manner. The seven-year-old case is still unresolved.

The flamingo killings in Frankfurt leave the German media guessing. "Who would do such a thing?" asks Die Welt daily. "Psychopaths? Was it a completely out-of-order test of courage among young people? Or was it Satanists?"

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Horse rescued after getting stuck in 6 foot deep sinkhole, Horsham, UK

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Horse rescued after getting stuck in sink hole for hours
An elderly horse was rescued after getting stuck in a six foot ditch for several hours in Bashurst Hill near Horsham on Saturday.

Firefighters, including four specialist officers, spent four hours yesterday afternoon getting the horse out of the sink hole using winching equipment.

The horse was left in the care of its owner and vet.

Cow Skull

Drought kills 20 thousand animals in Casanare, Colombia.

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© SEMANAThe drought has killed fish, cattle, deer, and other animals. The greatest toll has been capybaras.
To the government, deforestation is in Boyacรก reduces the water available, but that would not be the whole truth.

The strong wave of drought in Casanare has caused for four months death by dehydration of about 20,000 animals, mainly capybaras, deer, foxes, fish, turtles, reptiles and cattle.

The impact has been so strong that the Government of that department is considering Friday whether to declare an environmental emergency, especially in the town of Peace Ariporo, the third largest in Casanare. But for this they need legal arguments being collected.

Doing so would mean that the medium-term works as drilling deep wells with pumps would provide water.

But the problem is not lack of enough wells but a forest reserve, as explained to Semana.com Adriana Soto, former deputy environment minister and expert on climate change adaptation.

Bizarro Earth

Call for probe into trails in the sky

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Persistent contrails, not 'chemtrails'
In the wake of trails observed in the sky over the past few days, the Gaia Foundation is calling on the transport and environment authorities to investigate whether airline companies are involved in geo engineering tests over Maltese airspace to affect climatic conditions.

The environmental organisation said these trails hang in the sky for several hours, leading to cloud formation, and could be seen covering huge areas and forming massive clouds on satellite images.

"Many times, planes have been seen actually switching these trails on and off, creating even more suspicion of some intentional acts of commission. The engineering of clouds to manipulate climate is a reality and has been recognized by the scientific community and geo engineers in particular as a possibility for many years," it said.

The environmental organisation said the airline industry is obliged to act with the utmost transparency and accountability, and air traffic regulators have an obligation to investigate and provide all related environmental information in line with the principles of the Aarhus Convention, which have become part of European Law.

The foundation said it had been carrying out its own investigations to propose more thorough policies and regulations to ensure that Malta's skies remained free of any form of geo engineering carried out by foreign corporations.

Comment: They're not 'chemtrails'; they're regular contrails, it's just that the atmosphere's composition is changing.

Interesting that it's become so obvious now that mainstream media outlets have no choice but to cover it.

And rather than actually investigate the phenomenon, what ready-made smokescreen do they reach for?

Why, the pre-prepared 'chemtrails conspiracy theory' of course!

Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange Skies

Chemtrails, Disinformation and the Sixth Extinction


Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 114 sheep and 12 cows in Achacachi, Bolivian Andes

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Lightning killed 114 sheep and 12 cows in an Aymara village in the Bolivian Andes, an official in the area said.

Dead sheep were scattered on the hill with the charred wool, said Friday by telephone to The Associated Press Panfilo Chura, secretary of the mayor of Achacachi, 80 kilometers north of La Paz where the community Yacachi Grande is located in which the phenomenon occurred on Thursday afternoon.

The lightning was so loud that it seemed that the sky was broken, a witness told the PAT television. The roar threw down the shepherd and flock Angelino Ventura, 80, who was unhurt owner. Ventura broke down in tears on Friday and said he lost all his cattle.

Attention

2 Dead sperm whales wash up on a beach in Shetland, Scotland

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© Siobhan PirieOne of the Unst sperm whales
Scottish Natural Heritage has confirmed that the lower jaw of one of the two dead sperm whales that washed up on a beach in Shetland earlier this month has been sawn off .

The environmental agency has been in discussion with local police about what potentially could be a wildlife crime.

However, they have not officially reported it and police confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that they are not investigating.

SNH advised that it was a crime to possess any artefact from a protected animal be it a sperm whale or a Siberian tiger.

Meanwhile, the council environmental health department is warning people to stay away from the carcasses while plans are being put in place to dispose the two whales, possibly at the weekend.

Ideally, the two 40-tonne carcasses will be towed off Scolla Wick, near Muness, and taken to nearby Sandwick beach where they could be buried.

Attention

26th Dolphin found stranded along South Carolina's coast this year

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© (Hilton Head) Island Packet Dolphin in Broad Creek
A dying bottlenose dolphin washed ashore Monday morning on a southern Hilton Head Island beach, the 26th dolphin stranded along South Carolina's coast this year, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine biologist.

The dolphin was found alive on the beach between Sea Pines and Marriott's Grande Ocean Resort at about 8 a.m., but it died before marine biologists could reach it, said marine mammal stranding program scientist Wayne McFee.

McFee said no cause of death has been determined, but a necropsy would be performed Tuesday in Charleston.

A likely cause is the morbillivirus strain that has ravaged dolphin populations along the East Coast. McFee said 95 percent of the dolphins tested for the virus have tested positive.

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Suspected avian botulism killing thousands of water birds in Waikato, New Zealand

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A suspected outbreak of avian botulism is killing thousands of birds in Waikato.

The disease, which causes paralysis in birds, has been recorded in Matamata-Piako District, Waipa District and Waikato District this summer.

There have also unconfirmed reports of bird deaths in the Hauraki District.

About 3000 birds are estimated to have died from the disease in the Waikato region, Fish & Game gamebird manager David Klee said. Along with game ducks, the bacteria was killing black swans, grey teals and the New Zealand dabchick, among others, he said. "It's pretty indiscriminate, anything that sits on those ponds, seems to be affected." Although blood samples had not been taken, Mr Klee said the bird deaths all showed "clinical symptoms" of botulism.

Affected birds were showing signs of paralysis, they were flightless and, in the critical stage, had "lolling" and "drooping" heads.

Most outbreaks were occurring at municipal wastewater treatment plants - and in particular older, less used, oxidation ponds.

Attention

60 Dolphins wash up dead on Lambayeque Beaches, Peru

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© AFPMystery...A scientist inspects the remains of a dolphin washed ashore in Lambayeque, Peru. About 400 dolphins were found dead in a wide extension of beaches during the month of January.
Artisanal fishermen found 60 dead dolphins between the ports of Puerto Eten and Pimentel in Lambayeque, most of them decomposing so strong odors emanating.

The leader of the fishermen, inique Francisco, said that is everyday and find some dead dolphins stranded on the beaches and saw the mouth of the drains would be the cause of marine pollution affecting marine life.

In the place were also some dead sea turtles, plus some runners dying birds. The fishermen expressed their complaint because the authorities do not raise the corpses of animals for burial

Comment: Possibly related to this earthquake reported closeby 3 days earlier? An under the ocean outgassing event maybe?


Attention

Dead dwarf sperm whale found at Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina

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A whale that washed up onshore in Pine Knoll Shores has been identified as a Dwarf Sperm Whale. This is the smallest species of whale in the world and rarely spotted at sea.

Scientist Keith Rittmaster of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort says most everything scientists know about the Dwarf Sperm Whale has been found out by studying ones that have washed ashore, like the one from this past weekend.

Rittmaster says it is hard to even determine how many Dwarf Sperms there are in the world, since they are hard to spot and definitively identify at sea. Dwarf Sperm Whales look very similar to Pygmy Sperm Whales, which are more common.