Mass animal deaths multiply across the globe

Cases similar to the mass death of hundreds of black birds which fell from the sky in Arkansas are multiplying across the globe, with reports of incidents now coming in from every major continent.

The alarming trend kicked off on New Year’s Eve when 2,000 blackbirds started dropping dead in a one mile radius of Windwood Drive in the town of Beebe in Arkansas.

Dozens of US Environmental Services crews turned up and spent hours collecting the dead birds. However, they too seemed to be unable to explain the issue.

Local man Charles Boldrey said, “Nobody knows, I asked these guys who are out here picking them up and they don’t seem to know anything. Nobody seems to know anything. It just kind of freaked everybody out.”

The eerie happening deepened when news surfaced that some 100,000 drum fish washed up on the banks of the Arkansas River, just miles from the site of the bird tragedy.

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission reported a massive fish kill in Roseville which bizarrely, involved only a single species.

Penguins

However, a rash of other reports have since come in, including news of dead penguins washing up on the shores of New Zealand, 300 doves dropping dead in Italy, 70 bats dying in Arizona and hundreds of tons of river and sea fish washing up on shores everywhere from Asia to South America.

The deaths have now been plotted on Google maps, which can be viewed by clicking here.

Reuters reported yesterday that experts say although mass animal deaths are unusual, there are multiple causes which include severe weather and storms, as well as power lines and fireworks.

The mass deaths have been linked by some to the apocalyptic predictions of the Mayan calendar – which runs until 2012 before mysteriously expiring.

Manta rays, however, are doing very well in the Maldives.