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Volume 15: Number 4: Article 4
Unexplained Weight Gain Transients at the Moment of Death
Lewis E. Hollander, Jr., P.O. Box 100, Redmond, OR 97756
Twelve animals (one ram, seven ewes, three lambs and one goat) were
studied. At the moment of death an unexplained weight gain transient
of 18 to 780 grams for 1 to 6 seconds was observed with seven adult
sheep but not with the lambs or goat. The transients occurred in a quiet
time at the moment of death when all breathing and movement had ceased.
These transient gains are anomalous in that there is no compensating
weight loss as required by Newton's Third Law. There was no permanent
weight change at death. Dynamic weight measurements may present a fruitful
area of investigation.
Keywords: weight change at death, death, transient weight gains, sheep
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