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Ok I've got a bull story. Now this may be stretching the "nature observations" a bit, however it's close enough. Plus it's such an odd story I thought I would share it.
A couple of years ago I'm going into work, and I'm driving along on a two lane highway thru a pecan grove and some housing areas. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye up ahead on the side of the road I notice something big and black filling the whole bicycle lane and part of the gravel next to it as well. As i get closer I realize that this big form is a bull. A dead bull, lying on it's back with it's legs shooting straight up into the sky. I'm driving by this thing thinking...I can't believe I'm seeing this! There is a cow pasture a mile or so down the road, so it's no huge mystery where it came from. Still it's a pretty amazing sight.
So I go on to work and 9 or so hours later I'm driving back home. As I drive by I see the bull again. It hasn't moved obviously. It's still lying there legs up in the air. I keep going on trying to make sense of it.....and about a quarter mile down the road there is another bull lying on the side of the road on the shoulder. Dead as a doornail, three legs sticking up in the air, one bent. Only a little smaller than the last. At this point I'm staring slack-jawed at this thing as I drive by waiting for the twilight zone music to start. Two dead bulls. Nobody around either one. No cars with huge gashes or dents in the side. These were not small animals. I would hate to see what they would do to a mid-sized car hitting them at speed.
When I went back that way two days later they were gone. I have no explanations to offer as to how they got there really. They obviously escaped from the pasture down the road. Perhaps the rancher had tranquilized them to be picked up later? I don't know and I never heard anything about it. It may be the strangest thing I ever saw, or at least the most out of the ordinary.
Any very large tress any were near by... If so "Lightning Strike" kills cattle and live stock all over the world. Standing under a very large tree on wet ground... bang !
Any very large tress any were near by... If so "Lightning Strike" kills cattle and live stock all over the world. Standing under a very large tree on wet ground... bang !
They were on open ground right next to the highway. The trees in the pecan grove I mentioned was up the road a few miles. The area is mostly desert around there. I hate to tell a story like that with no denouement, but I have no clue as to what caused their demise. At the time I simply assumed they had ran out in traffic and were hit by passing traffic. Since I have a red vehicle, I'm kind of happy they weren't up and moving around.
When cattle are struck by lightning there is a visible mark of burning from the point of entry, ear tip or shoulder say, to one of their hooves. Obviously, you may not have stopped to examine the evidence . . . It can be clearly seen on all but black hided animals.
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