BISON MYSTERY DEATH COYOTE-TORN CARCASS WON'T BE NECROPSIED.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer NEWHALL - Officials at William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Park have opted to forgo a postmortem examination postmortem examination n. See autopsy. of a young male bison acquired in May, despite the mysterious circumstances surrounding the animal's death. Police investigating the death said that, without performing a necropsy necropsy /nec·rop·sy/ (nek´rop-se) examination of a body after death; autopsy. nec·rop·sy n. See autopsy. necropsy examination of a body after death. See also autopsy. - a postmortem examination - it is likely the actual cause of death will never be known. ``We'll take the investigation as far as we can and interview people who may have seen or heard something,'' said Capt. Ed Entwisle of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Police Department. ``But without a (necropsy), just what happened may never be known.'' The park's animal keeper discovered the dead animal Tuesday in a pen inaccessible to the bison without human intervention. Large sections of the 18-month-old bull had been eaten by coyotes, Entwisle said. Dave Stives, the park's animal keeper for the last six years, said he arrived for work Tuesday morning and immediately knew something was terribly wrong. ``I saw (the animal) in the corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most , where he wasn't supposed to be, and it was obvious he was dead,'' Stives said. ``There were footprints all over - tennis shoe footprints, not like the boots we wear. It's just really senseless.'' Tina Raleigh, acting supervisor of Hart Park for the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, decided to have the animal disposed of instead of ordering a necropsy. ``The time lapse was too long. Twenty minutes after death, you can't get a good reading,'' Raleigh said. ``For our purposes and (considering) the expense (of necropsy) and the coyotes, that was enough.'' Concerned about the dangers of inbreeding inbreeding, mating of closely related organisms. Inbreeding is chiefly used as a means of insuring the preservation of specific desired traits among the offspring of purebred animals (see breeding). , park officials had traded two older male bison in May to acquire the young bison bull that joined 10 female bison. Stives said the park, which has other animals that draw visitors - including deer, horses, goats and birds - has no plans to acquire another male bison until security has been tightened. He said higher fences, locked pens and increased patrols of the animal areas will be implemented as a precaution. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) A calf rests and female bison graze at William S. Hart County Hart County is the name of several counties in the United States:
(2 -- color) A sign warns people not to feed the bison at William S. Hart County Park, where one died mysteriously this week. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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