What’s behind the recent and abrupt deaths of over 100 thousand saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan remains unknown.
The endangered saiga antelope of Kazakhstan has suffered many mass population losses over the decades, often due to poaching.
What’s behind the recent and abrupt deaths of more than 100,000 of them, however, remains unknown.
The animals began to die off thousands at a time last week.
At this time the primary suspected cause is a pasteurellosis, a condition brought about by a bacterial infection, but that theory is not without its skeptics.
E.J. Milner-Gulland, the head of the UK-base