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Philosophia
March 24th, 2006, 07:28 PM
Carolina Mystery Beast Is a Rare Abnormal Fox, Experts Say

A mystery animal is foraging in the grassy fields around a North Carolina company.

"I've never seen anything like this," said Jerri Durazo, a Tyco Electronics employee who photographed the animal.

The slender creature has a kangaroo-shaped head, big upright ears, and a long ratlike tail. From a distance the animal looks hairless, but closer inspection reveals that its coat is a sleek grayish brown.

From here (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0321_060321_tyco_fox.html).
dragonsfollower
March 26th, 2006, 08:45 AM
that or an off shoot of a opossum (misspelled that) from the description thats what it sounds like
StormVixen
March 26th, 2006, 11:11 AM
wow... cool
Astara Seague
March 26th, 2006, 11:30 AM
wow a new abnormal species!!
Little Billy
March 26th, 2006, 11:39 AM
Heh. The "experts" haven't had a specimen to work on.

They're guessing. Or worse.

This thing is just as likely to be an alien brainsucker as an "abnormal fox".

Just saying.
_Banbha_
March 26th, 2006, 08:43 PM
I'd like to knit it a sweater or maybe a large heated rock, the kind reptiles use.
dragonsfollower
March 27th, 2006, 11:39 AM
still think its a possum
Garm
March 27th, 2006, 04:43 PM
There is a report on these creatures at Whitley Streiber's Unkown Country Website which includes forensic data on a couple of specimens

http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=4258

Whatever is afflicting these canids makes me more uneasy than thought of them being blood suckers from outer space
JuniperSigne
March 27th, 2006, 05:04 PM
It does look like a fox without hair to me...I think it should be left alone...we interfere with too many things
Anubis
March 27th, 2006, 06:13 PM
still think its a possum
Nope.. this is a possum.. that critter isn't even close...
http://www.mysticwicks.com/photoalbum/albums/userpics/21689/Mabon%20and%20Nin.JPG
http://www.mysticwicks.com/photoalbum/albums/userpics/21689/Mabon.JPG
Willow Rosette
March 28th, 2006, 07:14 AM
Did I miss why they are shooting them? Ok it is 4 am and Im not awake yet but I never saw in the articles why.
Anubis
March 28th, 2006, 12:00 PM
I'm not 100% sure why they shot them.. but living in Texas I can tell you that coyotes are pretty much fair game.. the excuses they give is rabies, and threat to livestock.

We have coyotes who get a chicken now and then and who eat the cat's food.. but our great pyreneese keeps them out of the pens... and I pretty much figure that if one of the chickens decided to spend the night out of the pen then they must have a death wish... the wings aren't clipped on ours and they can fly up onto the fence, into the trees etc... so I can't blame a coyote for eating one if it stays out...

And some people in general will just kill something because they don't know what it is... go figure