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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: spinnis on January 07, 2011, 06:21:46 PM
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8000.. thats ALOT.
the fuck.
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The fish was Onlyme's lunch, not sure about the Pigeons.
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Mother nature don't play, ask the dinosaurs
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Mother nature don't play, ask the dinosaurs
the thing that killed them didnt really come from our nature however
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remember the swine flu? yea... ::)
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BRO something seriously fucking WRONG is going on at the moment. tons of fish and birds dying all over the world like that is not so normal...
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BRO something seriously fucking WRONG is going on at the moment. tons of fish and birds dying all over the world like that is not so normal...
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not only the same species now either
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It happens a lot. 2 million died in bolivia 47 years ago because of extreme cold and drought.
This is nothing special guys... seriously.
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It happens a lot. 2 million died in bolivia 47 years ago because of extreme cold and drought.
This is nothing special guys... seriously.
and the 8000 birds at the same time in the same place?
I know the fish issue have happened before, but same week at birds? etc
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and the 8000 birds at the same time in the same place?
I know the fish issue have happened before, but same week at birds? etc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110107/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dead_wildlife_fact_check
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.[/color][/size]
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.
[Photo: See a map of recent mass animal deaths around the globe]
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?
[Rewind: Culprits identified in worldwide honeybee die-off]
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.
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AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.
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and the 8000 birds at the same time in the same place?
I know the fish issue have happened before, but same week at birds? etc
I am sure it has... I don't have any real evidence of it, but I would not be surprised to hear it has.
Cold will effect animals.. Has been that way since the beginning of time.
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an awesome parasite would be more sexy then climate change
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and the 8000 birds at the same time in the same place?
I know the fish issue have happened before, but same week at birds? etc
Fish are exceptionally vunerable to environmental changes. Water temperature changing a few degrees can wipe out a ton of fish. Same with pollutants. When you fuck with their water you fuck with their air and they don't like it!
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It happens a lot. 2 million died in bolivia 47 years ago because of extreme cold and drought.
This is nothing special guys... seriously.
"They" were spraying chemtrails 47 years ago?
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"They" were spraying chemtrails 47 years ago?
No... "They" (environmental scientists) said extreme cold and drought did it.
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Never liked birds or fish anyway...
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No... "They" (environmental scientists) said extreme cold and drought did it.
;)
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Thanks God dat da pigeons got snuffed ;D
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Normal. Eco system elbowing around.
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The end of times is upon us.
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They died for you bitches!
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i told you all 2012 is coming.
the end.
stock up on chunky kitkats, and curry powder while you can !
i also recommend multi vitamins, rice and pasta.
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Shit panda, you is starting to sound like Johnny Falcon wit da "stock up on the rice and pasta" gig ::)
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They died for you bitches!
hahaha
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Shit panda, you is starting to sound like Johnny Falcon wit da "stock up on the rice and pasta" gig ::)
jonay is a partially enlightened individual, i suggest you heed his warnings regarding 2012.
the worse that could happen if he's wrong is you have lots of pasta and rice to use up.
the worse that could happen if he's right and you havn't listened is you starve to death and die a twink :o
for me logic dictates the correct path......
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A bunch of birds died on my street.
I ate their brains to get a hit of bird GH.
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its only a matter of time before sevastase chimes in with a "theory".
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its only a matter of time before sevastase chimes in with a "theory".
A theory shared with him by three hot female scientists, with whom he undoubtedly enjoyed a foursome. ::)
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i told you all 2012 is coming.
the end.
stock up on chunky kitkats, and curry powder while you can !
i also recommend multi vitamins, rice and pasta.
Yes this ^
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Now, all we need are massive whale beachings---for no apparent reason. Bats flying into house windows---during the day and dogs and wolves collectively baying at the moon.