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What killed this ? Warning Graphic #8012793 10/16/20 08:31 PM
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Been losing corsican sheep, mostly young. They just vanish without a trace. found this female totaly decapitated in the field this morning.
Never seen any thing like it. Big cat maybe ?

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Very odd. You didn't find the head anywhere? My first though is human killed. My best guess is a bobcat since they go for a head/neck choke hold to kill. Defiantly not a coyote. They would have ate the butt and internal organs first... not the head.


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My first thought was human as well but this was not a trophy animal, there are some large rams in the herd. Head was chewed off and this was a full grown female about at about 100 lbs


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Did you move the body? Where's the blood?


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looks like cut mark to me

a human

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Id say person as well. Never seen anything start anywhere except for the gut rear end and eyes. Or an open wound.


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Originally Posted by cabosandinh
looks like cut mark to me

a human


yep, looks like to sharp of cut to be animal


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Body was dragged about 30 feet, some blood on the grass


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Hate to say it, but it does look like some kind of ritualistic beheading. We have seen a predator head-neck takedown, but then other parts of the animal gets eaten.


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Originally Posted by colt45
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looks like cut mark to me

a human


yep, looks like to sharp of cut to be animal


cheers my guess, human cut head off - hide for a trophy mount ...
Just my 2cents , deffanately not animal...
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We are pretty far off the main roads and know all the folks on the neiboring ranches. No muzzies around here

The body was dragged about 30 ft and there is blood on the grass indicating so. And agai this is not a trophy animal ...no horns

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Originally Posted by stillhntr
We are pretty far off the main roads and know all the folks on the neiboring ranches. No muzzies around here

The body was dragged about 30 ft and there is blood on the grass indicating so. And agai this is not a trophy animal ...no horns



They took the head to hide the bullet hole. I've seen well over 100 predator kills in my life and I've never seen one like that.


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Hard to imagine another animal could take its head off that clean?


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How much blood are we talking about at the kill site, and the trail to the animal?


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Satanic alien ritual kill.


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scratch Man tis the only predator that takes just the head, Trophy hunter
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True, and that is a disturbing consensus, ruled out bigfoot and chupacabra. Whats the bag limit on aliens ?
Dammit now I gotta buy a thermal

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DEFINITELY the work of a black mountain lion.

They ALWAYS take the heads with them


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I'd put a camera on the carcass and see what comes around.


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I would think the head was removed by a human, and other critters have been chewing around the hole. The chewing would disguise the hole and make it look like the head was removed by something other than human.

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Seen allot of kills over the years and the one thing they all had in common was the head was not cut off, broken off or consumed, it remained with the spine.


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There are some people who eat sheep's head. Quite the delicacy in some countries.


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Confirmed as human kill as per the local GW. Guess I will be sleeping days for a while, just cant get away from the crazies out there


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Hard to imagine another animal could take its head off that clean?



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