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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_jfKnDCsBKsJardoYcQaACw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for the report, Nancy. I don't have a suggestion, but I will forwar= d it to NatureNS and to Tom Herman and Fred Scott for help. Great horned owls come to mind as predators that often behead their victims= , which would certainly include muskrats. Perhaps the owl was interrupted in this process, but what became of the head? Cheers from Jim ---------- From: "Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:59:10 -0400 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Subject: Headless muskrat On Sunday I came across the decapitated body of a muskrat beside a pond nea= r Port Williams. The rest of the body looked untouched, and there was no sign of the missing head in the immediate vicinity. Lots of things prey on muskrats. Is there something that selectively eats only the head, or parts of the head? Just curious. =AD Nancy =20 =20 --Boundary_(ID_jfKnDCsBKsJardoYcQaACw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>FW: Headless muskrat</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks for the report, Nancy. I don't have a suggestion, but I will f= orward it to NatureNS and to Tom Herman and Fred Scott for help.<BR> <BR> Great horned owls come to mind as predators that often behead their victims= , which would certainly include muskrats. Perhaps the owl was interrup= ted in this process, but what became of the head?<BR> <BR> Cheers from Jim<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>"Nickerson, Nancy" <NickersonN@AGR.GC.CA><BR> <B>Date: </B>Mon, 28 May 2007 09:59:10 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca><BR> <B>Subject: </B>Headless muskrat<BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial">On Sunday I came across the decapitated b= ody of a muskrat beside a pond near Port Williams. The rest of the body look= ed untouched, and there was no sign of the missing head in the immediate vic= inity. Lots of things prey on muskrats. Is there something that selectively = eats only the head, or parts of the head? Just curious. =AD Nancy = <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Arial"> <BR> </FONT></FONT><BR> <FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"> <BR> </FONT><BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_jfKnDCsBKsJardoYcQaACw)--
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