Ravens attack, kill 19 sheep

[SagaDraco]

Not really sure where else to put this, interesting though. Never thought ravens could kill something as large as sheep.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20030210/od_nm/ravens_dc

"It's a full-blown attack on the sheep. They use their beaks, their feet. They pick out the animals' eyes," he said. He said such attacks were common when a large number of birds gathered in one area where they could not easily find food."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20030210/od_nm/ravens_dc

Perhaps the ravens will be getting a stern letter from PETA?

Anger over donkey bomb attack

"Animal rights campaigners have complained to Yasser Arafat after a donkey was blown up in a bomb attack in the West Bank. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has sent a letter to the Palestinian leader to protest at last month's blast near Jerusalem."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_748025.html

"Ms Newkirk says she has not asked Mr Arafat to try to stop suicide bombings that kill people."

Good to know they have their priorities straight!

[Ravens_Tears]

I lived up in Thompson many years ago. Ravens can become huge. We affectionaly refered to them as "Thompson Turkeys". It would not surprise me in the least that if they are hungry enough they will kill. Mind you, they would have to be VERY hungry for awhile because they are normally scavengers.... When we still lived in northern MB my father used to lay out suet and pork rind ( real stuff, not the snack food) for the birds as well as bird seed in the winter. Not all birds are "vegans"....

[Ahautenites]

**nods** It makes sense, like Ravens Tears said, but still.... I'm with SagaDraco on this one. It just never occurred to me that they WOULD do a thing like that.

Corbies are very smart birds (equivalent to a human toddler's intelligence), so I guess it's not so surprising that they would come up with such a wolfish plan.

[shnen]

Ravens can get extremely big though...


*starts having flashback of Birds* :eek:

[Blueowl]

There is even unrest within the animal kingdom...I really think we are in a huge shift in the cosmos...Animals are always a dead giveaway when something is amiss in the air...

[Ahautenites]

I actually kind of agree with PETA on the donkey thing. It's bad enough that people kill people. It irritates me to no end that they bring animals into it. (Yes, I really do hate people enough to not care that they blow themselves up. We're like 12 hamsters in a cage designed for a single hamster, anyway, so it's expected that we'd want to destroy each other.)

[chrestomancie]

Originally posted by NeferSesemet

I actually kind of agree with PETA on the donkey thing. It's bad enough that people kill people. It irritates me to no end that they bring animals into it. (Yes, I really do hate people enough to not care that they blow themselves up. We're like 12 hamsters in a cage designed for a single hamster, anyway, so it's expected that we'd want to destroy each other.)

NeferSesemet, I agree with you.

I did have a paragraph written but I couldn't get onto screen what is in my heart so I will leave it at that

[Hamelyn]

I can't say it surprises me all that much... I mean, birds like that became "death omens" because of the way they'd tear through corpses after large battles. Yum yum carrion... I can't say I feel it has too much to do with cosmic shifts, though I feel we're always having cosmic shifts, because it seems like a murderous thing to do.

Pun intended, sorry. *winks*

[Dellit Tandannon]

a murder of crows nearly killed my cat a couple years ago. she's obviously smaller then a sheep but it was creepy. i was sitting on my back porch having a cigarette and my cat was about 25 ft. in front of me in the grass and then out of nowhere six or seven crows dropped down from the trees in a circle around her and started walking towards her. if i hadn't been there and scared them away they probably would have killed her.