Animal Rain Informative Speech

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There is a phenomenon that has been occurring for as long as humans have been around and continues to happen to this day, this is when animals rain down from the sky. Now you might find it hard to believe that there have actually been events in time when animals have rained down from the sky, but a quick web search would show you that it does happen and somewhat often. Now we are all familiar with the popular idiom; “It’s raining cats and dogs outside.” This term can be described as being; “something that you say when it is raining very heavily.” (Free Dictionary) I’m sure that you have used this expression at some point in your life, but have you ever been serious about animals fall from the sky during a rain storm? Chances are that when …show more content…

Throughout history there have been many accounts of animals falling from the sky in large groups, such as large numbers of dead birds falling in on area at once. An example of such an event would be when a large group of dead birds fell from the skies over Little Rock, Arkansas. According to the Huffington Post in 2011 almost four to five thousand red-winged blackbirds fell from the skies just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. At the time this was quite the event given the well-known scare of the end of the world happening in 2012, but scientists and game wardens soon put an end to the calls of an apocalypse. “Tests on the birds meanwhile revealed hemorrhaging consistent with blunt-force trauma. And the agency said radar images show flights of blackbirds on two occasions on New Year’s Eve suddenly taking off from a roost at Beebe estimating to contain 1.6 million birds.” (Huffington Post) In response to this research and findings the University of Georgia’s College of Veterinary Medicine said the following; “In most instances, such traumatic injuries in wild birds are due to flying into stationary objects such as trees, houses, windows, power lines, tower, ect.” (University of Georgia) This type of event is still very strange, but is not what we will be focusing on in this …show more content…

You might find it hard to believe that animals can actually fall from the sky like rain; I mean it doesn’t sound very logical. In order to address this possible objection it’s important to look into history and find documented examples of this actually happening. According to Stephen Wagner, writer for aboutentertainment.com and a paranormal phenomena expert, there have been several different documented cases of frogs raining from the sky, dating back to as early as the nineteenth century; “In 1873, Scientific American reported that Kansas City, Missouri was blanketed with frogs that dropped from the sky during a storm. Minneapolis, Minnesota was pelted with frogs and toads in July 1901. A news item stated ‘When the storm was at its highest… there appeared as if descending directly from the sky a huge green mass. Then followed a peculiar patter, unlike that of rain or hail. When the story abated the people found, three inches deep and covering an area of more than four blocks, a collection of a most striking variety of frogs… so think in some places that travel was impossible.’” (Wagner) Here are two very good examples of the phenomenon that we are addressing today, when frogs literally fell from the sky during a storm, so much that it was

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