Mystery As Thousands Of Possum Tails Found Scattered Across New Zealand’s Roads

Mystery surrounds the discovery of thousands of fresh-looking possum tails across New Zealand.

The animal parts appeared scattered along highways and roads in the Auckland and Northland regions over the weekend.

One motorist claims to have seen around 15 tails per mile.

Various theories are doing the rounds as to what has caused the bizarre sight.

Some believe that the tail dumping is an accident and that they’ve fallen off the back of a possum cullers truck.

Others, however, believe it could be part of a protest.

“What would make someone want to go on a joy ride with a truck load of possum tails and scatter them like rose petals out the window from Northland down to here?” asked Neil Henderson, a local board member for Waitakere Ranges, in western Auckland.

“It’s really bizarre,” the BBC reports him as saying.

A possum pelt firm director heightened the mystery, by saying that cullers would normally have the animals’ bodies still in tact.

“It’s like something out of the Twilight Zone,” he told the New Zealand Herald.

Possums are described as “one of the greatest threats to our natural environment” by the national department of conservation.

It’s because they feast on native plants and animals. The critters are routinely culled in New Zealand.

(Stock image by REX)