Mystery as claw resembling that of a velociraptor shows up in garden

[UM-Bot]

A woman from the UK couldn't believe her eyes when she came across the peculiar disembodied appendage.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/365527/mystery-as-claw-resembling-that-of-a-velociraptor-shows-up-in-garden

[HandsomeGorilla]

It's a damn turkey foot.

[Tatetopa]

Yeah, good call HandsomeGorilla. The claws look like a ground walker not a predator.

[HSlim]

1 hour ago, HandsomeGorilla said:

It's a damn turkey foot.

Right?  Are large birds a new arrival in the UK or something?  How does something like this even make it into publication at all?  

Edited March 29 by HSlim

[Jon the frog]

After that people say that a bear cannot be misidentified as a bigfoot...

[LadyPhoenix]

Quite possible, but I don't know that I'd call this one "solved" without some sort of testing.  I can't find any mention of wild turkeys in the UK, so if that's what this was from, there would have to be someone raising them in her area.  At the least, looking for that would be a good step.  It would be nice to see the whole thing, if there is more, because that could settle the ID question more easily.  Quite a startling find, nonetheless.  If this was from a turkey, how did a foot end up in her garden?  That's not a small bird, and they're pretty smart, so what predator there could take one down and leave behind a foot?  Does she have one of those out-of-place cats in her area?

[Susanc241]

My guess is someone bought a whole (dead) turkey and after dressing it for cooking, the claw was scavenged by a fox and left in the garden. We don’t have wild turkeys here but turkey farms. People keep chickens and ducks so maybe someone was keeping a turkey or two and one was predated on by a fox.

Edited March 30 by Susanc241
Correcting grammar.

[CigaretteSmokingMan]

Plot twist: It was a jive turkey

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

On 3/29/2023 at 2:37 PM, Jon the frog said:

After that people say that a bear cannot be misidentified as a bigfoot...

And people identifying it as a BF could be getting it right, too. You simply can't use this - "it's a bear" excuse for every reported sighting of a BF.

Anytime said witness sees a creature running downhill, it's NOT a bear (bears cannot sun downhill), and when the footprints are not bear footprints, it's not a bear. 

Some is not all, and all it takes is one.

[Occupational Hubris]

1 hour ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:

And people identifying it as a BF could be getting it right, too. You simply can't use this - "it's a bear" excuse for every reported sighting of a BF.

Anytime said witness sees a creature running downhill, it's NOT a bear (bears cannot sun downhill), and when the footprints are not bear footprints, it's not a bear. 

Some is not all, and all it takes is one.

If a bear wants to run down a hill, it is going to do so. 

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

2 minutes ago, Occupational Hubris said:

If a bear wants to run down a hill, it is going to do so. 

Congratulations! You have won the "dead wrong" prize.

It is impossible for a bear to run downhill, on 2 legs or 4. they just can't do it.

[Occupational Hubris]

1 minute ago, Earl.Of.Trumps said:

Congratulations! You have won the "dead wrong" prize.

It is impossible for a bear to run downhill, on 2 legs or 4. they just can't do it.

lol 

way to double down on the dumb

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pellinore]

4 hours ago, Occupational Hubris said:

If a bear wants to run down a hill, it is going to do so. 

Only ones with their front legs longer than their back ones.

[Occupational Hubris]

48 minutes ago, pellinore said:

Only ones with their front legs longer than their back ones.

Any bear that wants to run down a hill can do so. See above videos i posted. 

This is a dumb myth with zero merit. 

[pellinore]

1 hour ago, Occupational Hubris said:

Any bear that wants to run down a hill can do so. See above videos i posted. 

This is a dumb myth with zero merit. 

Hill farmers in Wales have found their sheep have evolved with their left legs longer than their right legs, so they can graze safely in the mountains. It does mean they can only circle hills in a clock-wise direction, though. It is probably the opposite on Australian farms due to the Coriolis effect.

[Occupational Hubris]

2 minutes ago, pellinore said:

Hill farmers in Wales have found their sheep have evolved with their left legs longer than their right legs, so they can graze safely in the mountains. It does mean they can only circle hills in a clock-wise direction, though. It is probably the opposite on Australian farms due to the Coriolis effect.

Were sheep the question? No. It was bears. And bears runnig down hills.

I submit the following:

 

 

 

 

Case closed. Bears can run down hills. 

[Still Waters]

Just a reminder here, this article isn't about bears. 

Let's stay on topic please.

[Abramelin]

On 3/29/2023 at 5:55 PM, HandsomeGorilla said:

It's a damn turkey foot.

[pellinore]

1 hour ago, Abramelin said:

It is a good piece of evidence to support the theory that birds are descended from dinosaurs as it looks like the claw of a Tyrannosaurus. (I didn't realise that Henry Huxley put forward this theory in the 1860s, I thought it was first proposed in the 1960s. It is generally accepted now).