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KODIAK, Alaska - At least 19 bald eagles died Friday after gorging themselves on a truck full of fish waste outside a processing plant.

 

Fifty or more eagles swarmed into the truck, whose retractable fabric cover was open, after the truck was moved outside the plant, said Brandon Saito, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who coordinated the recovery operation.

 

The birds became too soiled to fly or clean themselves, and with temperatures in the mid-teens, began to succumb to the cold. Some birds became so weak they sank into the fish slime and were crushed.

 

nice going.

Now if this was a fat guy who gorged himself to death eating crab legs and shrimp at a Chinese buffet, I thnk the blame would be going towards the eater. If the birds were too stupid to know when to stop eating, they were not long for this world anyway. However, you are right, the fish plant should have known it would attract bird. Too bad it wasn't seagulls that died. They are just rats with wings anyway.

Now if this was a fat guy who gorged himself to death eating crab legs and shrimp at a Chinese buffet, I thnk the blame would be going towards the eater. If the birds were too stupid to know when to stop eating, they were not long for this world anyway. However, you are right, the fish plant should have known it would attract bird. Too bad it wasn't seagulls that died. They are just rats with wings anyway.

 

I'm no "FlasoxxJim" but I'm pretty sure birds don't have the "I'm full" feeling us "normal" animals have...

 

 

 

I'm no "FlasoxxJim" but I'm pretty sure birds don't have the "I'm full" feeling us "normal" animals have...

 

I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers.

Edited January 12, 200818 yr by FlaSoxxJim

I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers.

 

 

I was just trying to make myself feel better by thinking I wasn't the only one gorging.....

 

thanks as always, Jim

I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers.

 

I was leaving it all up to you

I was leaving it all up to you

 

And they called it puppy love.

I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers.

That makes a little more sense. I thought fish could eat themselves to death, but had never heard of birds doing it. I think my dog tried to do that one year, when she managed to snag a 5lb ham off the dinner table.

I'm a little bit FlasoxxJim (and a little bit Rock and Roll), and certainly birds have a satiation ("I'm full") response. I think the bit about the animals "gorging" themselves in the story is a little misleading. In reading the story, I think the birds just got all gunked up in the soupy processing wastes and either sunk into the stuff or succumbed to cold because they couldn't fluff their feathers.

 

Ummm...ewwwwwwwwwwwww....

Survival of the Fittest.

 

If the eagles weren't so stupid they'd be alive.

Survival of the Fittest.

 

If the eagles weren't so stupid they'd be alive.

 

shouldn't that be moved to the NFL thread

And they called it puppy love.

And we'll call that a wrap and the end of a fine career.