Comments on: Did Mystery Cat Decapitate Olivia?

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:01:32 +0000

Gkingdano:
One has to admit at least this is very weird—don’t you think???
Poor Olivia.

By: gkingdano

gkingdano — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:39:37 +0000

I think the most likely answer is that the bird went unconscious due to the fence with its head outside the fence. The head was then chewed off by some normal local meat eater (ie. fox) then carried off to eat at a safer location or stash for later consumption like foxes are know to do world-wide. I believe big cats are loose out there, but WHY does EVERY dead animal have to be ONLY able to be killed by some big terrible killer cats for hell?

By: nzcryptozoologist

nzcryptozoologist — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:35:52 +0000

I find it unusual that only the head was attacked and possibly taken as normally large carnivores such as Big Cats generally go for areas with more flesh when feeding.
Yes the initial killing attack is generally a neck bite but then it is the large organs and areas of denser flesh that are focused on.
The only thing I can put this down to is obviously the animal must have been disturbed shortly after the initial killing attack.

By: Viergacht

Viergacht — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:54:27 +0000

Seriously, you have to wonder what was going through that fox’s mind.

By: greatanarch

greatanarch — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:07:02 +0000

It would be a very bold fox that would tackle an ostrich: chickens are their usual level. And biting right through the neck?
Unfortunately, this sort of animal mutilation can also be the work of humans.

By: scotcats

scotcats — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:16:17 +0000

Regards this, no one from Big Cats in Britain have actually seen the body of Olivia. Reporters rang mysef, and Chris Hall. They tried their best to make us say that a big cat was responsible, we would have no way of knowing especially when myself and Chris are based in the North of England, and Scotland.

Apparently a post mortem was carried out, when asked for the results there seemed to be none, or they didn’t know.

Seen this before with a rhea, everyone, even the vet, was adamant that a big cat was responsible. I was the one who said dog, but no one listened, (quite a turn around that one The culprit was caught a week later attacking another rhea, it was a stray Alsatian dog. The print found at the scene was that of a dog, should have ended that one really.

Ww will just have to wait and see until we find out more. I did ask them to contact zoologist Chris Moiser, British big cat investigator, and owner of Tropiquaria Zoo, in Somerset were this incident occurred.

Fossilhunter, don’t believe everything you read in the books, I dare say Chris M could shed a lot of light on the events in that area!! But that can wait for another time.

Mark Fraser

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:11:31 +0000

Whoops!
May have been off on the distance between the parks. More like 90 miles, or 145 kilometers. Still, not too far for a vicious, snarling carnivorous puma. (And hungry!)

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:35:54 +0000

Hmmm. I am currently reading a book titled “We Bought a Zoo”, by Benjamin Mee, about a family that moved to Devon, UK (about 50 miles [80 km] from Sommerset) into a house with a zoological park in the back! Four days after having moved in, they had a jaguar escape its enclosure. It was safely captured.

On Day Seven the author was driving two fellows to the park at about 11:30pm. They were driving through a section with six-foot high walls along the roads (with woods beyond) when they all saw a deer poking its head over the wall. As they got closer they realized it was a puma! Being zoo-type folks they all knew exactly what they had seen, and were close enough to their animal park to worry that they’d had another escape. Speeding to the park they discovered both of their pumas still in their enclosure.

The next day he mentioned the sighting to two staff members, one of whom is a volunteer of the Big Cats Sighting Society.They were told that there were indeed pumas in the area living wild, and occasional sightings right inside the zoo! The female pumas at the park seemed to attract males down off the moors when they were in heat. A credible groundsman had seen a female with two cubs a few miles away.

The story of Olivia (above) does not say if they found the head, if there were any other signs of attack, or if any of the bird was eaten. It would be interesting to hear a more complete description of the scene. It seems to me that any animal would leave tracks, and not just lop off the ostrich’s head and leave, unless scared off.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:09:54 +0000

If the head was bitten off, then we should be able to get dna samples. After all I leave saliva when I bite something. Wasn’t there any foot prints? Teeth marks? Maybe fur left behind? CSI would have figured this out by now.