UFOs in the daily Press:

HYPOTHESIS GENERATES MANY DOUBTS:

It's hard for me to believe in such an attack by rodents on dead cows," says Jaime Polop. The UNRC rodent specialist reports that the red-muzzled rodents ingest barely 10 to 12 grams of nourishment and that in order to consume the mutilated cow tissue, it would have been necessary to have hundreds of mice acting in concert.

Polop states that the did not have the opportunity to see the mutilated animals and that it is impossible for him to draw conclusions from scant existing data, but he has his doubts.

The oxymycterus are habitually found in very low numbers among regional rodent populations, which is why it is hard to imagine a massive attack on deceased cows. This mouse species is often found near water courses and I understand that this is not the case where the Berrotán animal was found." He found it difficult to believe that such a drastic nutritional change could have affected the red-muzzled mouse and adds that if these are indeed the culprits, their fecal matter should be found on the mutilated calf and in its surroundings.

Moreover, the Vice-Chancellor of the School of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine of the UNRC, Anibal Bessone, pointed out that new histopathological studies will be available before this weekend regarding the animal found at Berrotarán. "No clean incisions are found at Tandil, only ripped or torn ones, and they have proven the rodent's presence in at least 3 or 4 out of 30 [mutilated animal] cases. We will consult them and keep investigating. We would like to have more cases to furnish a general conclusion," he underlined.

Aside from the tenured faculty of the National University of Rio Cuarto, there were also some professors at the National University of Cordoba who expressed their doubts as to the possible involvement of these mice on dead cows. However, they refrained from taking an official stand on the subject.

The clean incisions on this animal found in Berrotaran are the main cause of the controversy.