Funniest Excuses for the Animal Deaths

There have been many excuses for the mass animal deaths occurring around the world and several of them are quite elaborate. From fireworks to weather, all explanations are being thrown at the public to give an answer at these sudden and unexpected deaths. There are a few that really take the cake.

Here's the list of the funniest excuses, in no particular order, of the bird/fish/creature deaths:

1. The director of Cornell University's ornithology lab in Ithaca, N.Y., said the most likely suspect is violent weather. It's probable that thousands of birds were asleep, roosting in a single tree, when a "washing machine-type thunderstorm" sucked them up into the air, disoriented them, and even fatally soaked and chilled them. (msn)

A thousand birds in one single tree? That must be one big tree. Has any meteorologist ever even heard of or reported a "washing machine-type thunderstorm"?

2. "The blackbirds were flying at rooftop level instead of treetop level," said Ms Rowe, "blackbirds have poor eyesight, and they started colliding with things." (The Zimbabwean)

Was Ms. Rowe watching all of the birds and measuring their flight distance from rooftops and treetops? If blackbirds have poor eyesight, why did they all of a sudden start "colliding with things" now? Why haven't they been colliding with things en masse for the last thousands of years?

3. "We have received information from local residents last night. Our main theory is that the birds were scared away because of the fireworks and landed on the road, but couldn't fly away from the stress and were hit by a car," he explained to The Local on Wednesday. (The Local)

Fireworks seem to be the popular cause for the bird "stress," but can that many birds be hit at once by numerous cars all at the same time?

4. "It would be illegal to deliberately dump snapper, but there could be an innocent explanation, such as a net splitting." (nzherald)

If fishermen lost that many fish because of bad nets, I bet someone got in trouble for net quality checks.

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Tapaleao, Vaimoana. "Hundreds of snapper dead on beaches." nzherald.co.nz. nzherald.co.nz, 05012011. Web. 8 Jan 2011. .