10 Animals That Lay Frozen
There isn’t any scarcity of animals on our lovely planet Earth, right?
So many species, breeds and hybrids that we can never learn about them all!
Some tempt us to pet them while the rest scare us to death, but we are still intrigued by
them equally!
While we have a perception about each of them, they manage to astound us every time and that’s
what we are bringing to you through this video!
Ever saw an animal frozen in ice?
Sounds new so here we present to you 10 animals that were found frozen in ice, it’ll give
you goose bumps, warm yourself up!
Number 10.
Fox on display Jäger Franz Stehle extracted a fox from ice
this January after spotting it in the icy German river, Danube in December 2016.
The perfectly encased ginger fox was displayed outside the hunter’s house; the idea was
obviously criticized by many.
As per Stehle, he displayed the fox to warn people about the power of nature and how they
shouldn’t mess with it.
Quite a reason!
In fact, his story of the fox drowning in the river and then freezing was not believed!
We wonder if that’s not how the poor creature died, what had happened to it!
Number 9.
Fish in an ice wall A photographer captured an image of fish frozen
in a wall of ice at South Dakota’s Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge in Mach 2015.
As per Preheim, the lake levels were extremely low that year due to drought and when the
surface froze with extra snow on it, the sun was blocked.
You can well imagine that in such a situation, photosynthesis is hampered and thus the aquatic
plants cannot make oxygen.
Yep, you guessed it right, the fish were killed due to oxygen depletion!
It indeed was a beautiful picture but what the poor creatures went through would have
been suffocating!
Number 8.
Elk in Kosmo It was the December of 2013 when Inger Sjøberg
saw something dark in the ice as she was skating across Kosmo lake in Valnesfjord.
She thought it to be a piece of wood but a closer look revealed the frozen carcass of
an elk!
As per her, the elk must have fallen in the lake before the ice was properly hardened
and then froze in place later.
That’s chilling, LITERALLY!
She feels sorry for the elk and accepts the reality of such incidents where animals fall
prey to nature.
Early in 2014, it became a favorite spot for kids who would stop by to look at the frozen
creature!
Number 7.
Frozen lover boy A very tragic case of an amphibian freezing
to death in its hibernation period came to light back in January 2014.
Photographer Svein Nordrum stumbled upon the creature while he was skating on Lake Bindingsvann.
As per him the frog might have hibernated in the cold but was fooled when the temperature
rose suddenly.
It might have thought it to be spring and ran to find a mate but was frozen on the lake
when temperature fell again.
The frog looks as if it is asleep and will come active soon but sadly it has frozen and
won’t get up!
Number 6.
The trapped dog It was a cold January morning in the year
2011 when a man in Dawson Creek, British Colombia noticed a block of ice in his front lawn.
Upon inspection he was shocked to find a frozen pup inside it and reported the case.
As per Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the B.C.
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the dog must have been frozen in a rubber
bin.
The wounds on the dog suggested that it was killed by another animal and was then frozen
in ice but whatever be the case, his frozen carcass made us cry!
Number 5.
The frozen meal You have seen that picture of a pike fish
eating a bass on internet, right?
When the pic went viral, people started commenting it to be fake.
So Anton and Alex Babich decided to go back to Wawasee Lake, Indiana where they saw the
spectacle and with a chainsaw got them out.
How this exactly happened is not known but reddit has many theories, one being that a
fisherman caught a bass but because it was too small, he threw it back.
Since it was already dead, it floated near the top layer of ice which was thin.
Seeing it floating, a pike fish began eating it but choked and died.
Later they froze due to extreme cold and that’s how we got this internet sensation!
Number 4.
Rare cave Lion Cubs You might have never even heard about this
particular lion because it has long been extinct.
Their bones and tracks have been found earlier and that’s how we know about their existence
but things changed in 2015!
Russian researchers found lion cubs in the Ice Age permafrost of Yakutia, Siberia.
It was the first time that such a well preserved prehistoric cat was found, with its fur intact.
That’s a big thing!
Reports suggested that the carcass is at least 10,000 years old though it could be older!
Wow!
Number 3.
Fight for love Two bull moose were found frozen in Unalakleet,
Alaska, along the Bering Sea.
We know it’s definitely sad but that’s not the whole story, there’s more to it!
They were locked in a combat and seems like their last fight froze in time!
Two hikers found them in 8inches of ice in November 2016.
It is said that moose get more aggressive during their fall mating season so there is
a high chance that the two were fighting over a lady!
It wasn’t the best of their decisions, see how it led them to become a frozen spectacle!
Number 2.
Memorable mammoth What if we told you that a wooly mammoth has
been found that lived some 39,000 years ago?
Yea we totally get those shocked expressions people!
Found in 2013, this mammoth was in a remarkably good condition, we can all thank glacial ice
for this natural preservation!
Imagine, even clumps of its distinguishing hair were intact when it was discovered in
Siberia!
It was displayed for tourists to have a look at an exhibition hall in Yokohama, south of
Tokyo from July to November of the same year.
Lucky people!
Number 1.
The frozen fish sheet Norway witnessed a very rare incident of thousands
of fish freezing in ice!
You don’t see that everyday so when Ingolf Kristiansen was walking his dog along the
bay of Lovund, he was shocked to see such a sight!
We can blame the extremely low air temperature of -7.8C together with a strong east wind
to instantly freeze sea water, killing numerous fish!
As per marine researchers, it is not uncommon for herring to get very near the shore when
chased by predators, which might lead to such a situation in extreme cold!
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