Thursday, 2 February 2012

Howl or Growl. What's on the Prowl?

The bodies of two deer have been found in Herefordshire, and DNA samples were taken to prove or disprove the theory that they’d been killed by a big cat. Scientists from the University of Warwick said that there was no trace of either feline or canine DNA on the bodies, only the DNA of fox and deer. So that’s another big-cats-on-the-loose story thrown out of the window.

But hang on a bit...

If somebody went to the expense and trouble of carrying out DNA testing, there must have been some reason to suspect that the deer had been killed by a very big animal with big teeth and big claws. Not a fox. Or another deer.

So what was it? Could it be that somebody isn’t telling us something?

I was thinking about that when I went for my walk tonight. Silly me.

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