- Source: Diario 'La Nueva Provincia' (Bahia Blanca - Argentina)
Data 6-16-02
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- New Mutilations in Rivera and Pringles
Strange Mutilation Wave Continues
The mutilation in the [town of] Rivera is the first one to involve a horse.
The animal had died from natural causes and its owner transferred it to
a remote area. Days later, the carcass showed signs of strange incisions.
Meanwhile, the first cattle mutilation in [the town of] Coronel Pringles
was registered yesterday, involving a 220 kg. steer. Veterinarian Marcelo
Erro and stallholder Abelardo Vivas claim having never seen anything like
it.
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- CARHUE and CORONEL PRINGLES (from our offices) -- Two
new animal mutilation cases shook the communities of Rivera and Coronel
Pringles.
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- In the first community, belonging to the Adolfo Alsina
district, residents had still not overcome the surprise and uncertainty
caused by the appearance of a bovine found mutilated at a farm, when word
was received that a horse had suffered similar injuries. "A psychosis
has been unleashed throughout the residents," believes veterinarian
Jorge Robles, alarmed due to the fact that theories over the causes of
the mutilations have spread like wildfire in Rivera. "The horse died
of old age some 20 days ago, right near the house. For that reason I decided
to rope it by the legs and drag it to a secluded area. I went by many times
in recent days but never paid the carcass any mind until I saw what had
happened and was startled," related the horse's owner, who declined
to indentify himself.
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- "The animal's missing an eye, like the one that
turned up in Salliquel', and I was startled by the cut that can be seen
around its teeth and below its jaw, which is a perfect cut," added
the cattle rancher. He added that the horse was also missing its tongue,
despite the fact that it's jaw was clenched shut. "It's weird, becuase
when an animal dies it stiffens so much that it's hard to open its mouth."
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- The cattleman also noticed that the horse was missing
its anus and genitals, as well as skin from the inner section of the genital
region. "Under its tail, it had been clipped perfectly down to the
hair, but with the abdominal wall showing," he described.
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- The rural location where the mutilated horse was discovered
is west of Rivera, some 12 km away from the town. The horse was inspected
by veterinarian Jorge Robles, who also analized the dead cow found in Arano.
"The incisions are the same. The horse is missing its tongue, an eye,
an ear and its genitals." Robles recalled the autopsy he performed
on the cow he found at Arano, discovering that its internal organs were
intact.
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- "But when I reached the pelvic cavity, I found a
hole resembling a tunnel, and I couldn't find the uterus or the ovaries.
They also took its eye and ear, and it was missing a patch of skin some
two or three centimeters wide, bordering its lips." He further added
that the cow had lost the moving part of its tongue, although without having
made any incisions in its neck area. The incisions on the horse are identical.
The veterinarian said that in both cases it is impossible to determine
an exact pathology. Nor can it be considered, he added, that "classic
surgery was employed in making the incisions."
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- "The wounds are not bruned, and while my understanding
of laser surgery is scant, I found that there is no laser that can cut
hide in that way. Furthermore, there is no sign that the cutting element
has touched anything other than hide," he concluded.
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- The vet dismissed the possibility that a wild animal
could make those incisions. "The bird or animal that attacks a carcass
isn't after the eye, the ear or the mammary glands. They are carnivores
and feed on flesh. In this case, 80% of what's missing is hide. This is
what fills one with doubts." The vet confirmed that the places where
the animals are found are removed from trails or roads. "The people
who discovered the first cases noted that all of the carcasses have their
heads toward the east and their tails toward the wast. Since it isn't easy
to find the cardinal points in a field, I took a compass with me when I
went to see that cow again. To my surprise, the head is pointing due east
and the tail due west."
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- "What happened cannot be fit within the framework
of medical science." he added.
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- Translation (C) 2002.
- Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology.
- Special thanks to Gloria Coluchi.
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