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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Mutilations to
Bovine Animals Caused by Rodent like Creatures
This is taken
from an official report from the National Health and Agroalimentary Quality
Service (SENASA), entrusted to Universidad Nacional del Centro (UNICEN) in
Tandil.
It concludes the studies
performed on dead, mutilated animals, establishing the deaths were the result of
natural causes, and the injuries provoked by predators – among them a rodent of
the genus Oxymcterus known as the hocicudo rojizo (red muzzle).
Its population has changed
and so has its eating habits.
The report points out that
deaths of twenty animals studied, taken from livestock facilities in the Buenos
Airean districts of Olavarria, Tandil, Tres Arroyos, Coronel Pringles, Coronel
Dorrego and Balcarce are “due to natural causes and can be attributed to
metabolic or infectious diseases that frequently arise this time of
year…”
This according to UNICEN’s
chancellor, Dr. N?stor Auza…
Auza participated in a press
conference at SENASA’s headquarters, headed by its president, Bernado Can?,
along with Alejandro Soraci, dean of the school of Veterinary Sciences of
UNICEN, Ofelia Tapia, a toxicologist from the school of Veterinary Sciences of
UNICEN, and Ernesto Odriozola, a technician with the Animal Protection
Department of INTA-Balcarce.
The conclusions of these
studies dismiss radiation, as well as narcotics, at the locations where the
animals studied were found, according to technical reports from the schools of
mathematics and Natural Sciences and Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University
of Buenos Aires (UBA), which also participated in the tests.
The reports indicate “it was
ascertained through direct observation, and under stereoscopic magnifying glass,
that the lesions of the animals’ hide and organs were produced by predators,”
such as rodents and foxes.
The absence of special
elements in the incisions (heat-cauterization) was further shown by means of
histological tests.
Field observations confirmed
the “presence of rodents around the carcasses, inside the carcasses, and at the
moment the animal tissue was ingested.”
Some of these rodents were
trapped and subjected to laboratory testing, where they showed “a particular
voraciousness for the organs provided” in the experiment.
The characteristics of the
rodents correspond to a species that is little developed in our environment,
belonging to the genus Oxymcterus, which has proliferated of late, as well as
foxes, according to information recorded in previous studies by UNICEN’s fauna
and biology group.
The argument set
is – “there can be no doubt that a series of environmental, management and
production factors have been present and which have impacted the ecosystem in
different ways, causing evident imbalances among species, as well as in their
habits.”
The study showed that
animals studied caused injuries that follow a certain pattern strongly
associated between lesions and natural cavities such as mouths, ears, mammary
glands, rectums, vulvae and in exceptional cases – if the animal had been dead
for a longer period of time – the abdomen.
The team took the most
recently dead and unmutilated animals, placing them at selected locations to
study predator action, confirming that lesions produced were identical as those
found on the rest of the animals studied and found dead.
Can? noted that “at the
start of the study, we did not discard the possibility of human involvement, but
it has been proven that there was none because of the lack of narcotizing
elements. It was also proven in recently slain animals that the incisions are
not so precise as serrated, and the studies tell us that the animals died of
natural causes and not due to provoked attacks,” adding that “all public
agencies concur in this assessment.”
It was added “the most
recent dead and mutilated animal cases were involved with the greatest degree of
rigor. This is definite proof. This is what was proven.”
Dr. Tapia noted “the
rodents’ diet is normally based on worms and bugs, but there has evidently been
a change in this habit due to the lack of insects and worms. We are thinking
that there is a modification in the normal fauna populations of the red muzzle,
but the explanation as to why these rodents changed their dietary habits forms
part of a much larger study.”
Mutilations to
Bovine Animals Caused by Rodent like Creatures written by Bill Barber
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