Cuckoo-shrike
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A few months ago, we found a dead Stoat on the nature reserve I help to manage, Windmill Farm, here on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. We sent the corpse to the Veterinary Investigation Centre for analysis. It had suffered severe trauma to the head, but was otherwise a healthy animal in good condition.
In the last few days I have found no less than three dead Weasels on the farm. Again, a post mortem on the first one has revealed that it met a similar fate to the Stoat, and the corpses of the other two look to have gone the same way. No attempt has been made to eat any of the flesh of the animals.
Can anyone suggest how these Mustelids might have met their ends?
Thanks
Andy
In the last few days I have found no less than three dead Weasels on the farm. Again, a post mortem on the first one has revealed that it met a similar fate to the Stoat, and the corpses of the other two look to have gone the same way. No attempt has been made to eat any of the flesh of the animals.
Can anyone suggest how these Mustelids might have met their ends?
Thanks
Andy