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60,000 Antelope Died in Four Days and No One Knows Why
It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling antelope, veterinarians in the area had already reported dead animals on the ground. "But since there happened to be die-offs of limited extent during the last years, at first we were not really alarmed," Zuther, the international...
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I hope they give us some answers as to why this happened.
It's very likely a new strain of bacteria or a virus that is able to take out most immune systems. Luckily these type of scenarios are rare!
You would think they could cope with bacteria unless something else is going on.