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Mystery deer found in tree
By Associated Press, 12/23/2002 10:07
HANCOCK, N.Y. (AP) ''Wild Kingdom'' meets ''CSI'' as baffled wildlife experts and hunters try to figure out how a dead deer ended up in a tree 12 feet off the ground.
A man hunting in a remote area of Delaware County stumbled upon the strange sight while lost in a snowstorm on opening day of deer season last month.
''I thought it was a giant eagle nest or something, but I got closer and I said, 'My God! That's a deer!'' hunter Gerald Inman of West Nyack told the Times Union of Albany in Monday's editions. ''My first thought was a poacher put it up in the tree.''
Three weeks later, another hunter found the deer shot through its heart with an arrow still in the tree.
The two hunters and a state wildlife expert returned to the site on Dec. 13 and had to cut down the tree to dislodge the deer from the crotch of the maple tree.
''As far as really weird wildlife occurrences go, this one takes the cake by far,'' said Scott VanArsdale, a wildlife technician for 18 years with the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The carcass was taken to the state wildlife lab near Albany, where pathologist Ward Stone determined the 70-pound buck had been killed with the arrow.
He said there was no evidence that another animal such as a bear or mountain lion might have dragged the deer up the tree.
Stone said the hunter who killed the deer probably hauled the buck into the tree with ropes, intending to retrieve it later.
Hancock is 90 miles southwest of Albany.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/357/region/Mystery_deer_found_in_tree_:.shtml
By Associated Press, 12/23/2002 10:07
HANCOCK, N.Y. (AP) ''Wild Kingdom'' meets ''CSI'' as baffled wildlife experts and hunters try to figure out how a dead deer ended up in a tree 12 feet off the ground.
A man hunting in a remote area of Delaware County stumbled upon the strange sight while lost in a snowstorm on opening day of deer season last month.
''I thought it was a giant eagle nest or something, but I got closer and I said, 'My God! That's a deer!'' hunter Gerald Inman of West Nyack told the Times Union of Albany in Monday's editions. ''My first thought was a poacher put it up in the tree.''
Three weeks later, another hunter found the deer shot through its heart with an arrow still in the tree.
The two hunters and a state wildlife expert returned to the site on Dec. 13 and had to cut down the tree to dislodge the deer from the crotch of the maple tree.
''As far as really weird wildlife occurrences go, this one takes the cake by far,'' said Scott VanArsdale, a wildlife technician for 18 years with the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The carcass was taken to the state wildlife lab near Albany, where pathologist Ward Stone determined the 70-pound buck had been killed with the arrow.
He said there was no evidence that another animal such as a bear or mountain lion might have dragged the deer up the tree.
Stone said the hunter who killed the deer probably hauled the buck into the tree with ropes, intending to retrieve it later.
Hancock is 90 miles southwest of Albany.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/357/region/Mystery_deer_found_in_tree_:.shtml
