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Russian language animated cartoon with English subtitles about the saiga antelope.
English language video for Club Penguin by Disney Canada featuring the saiga antelope.
English language video about the saiga antelope on the steppe.
Russian language video about the saiga antelope.
English language video by Bill and Rahima Fitz about the saiga antelope.
Saiga have faced the long term threat of climate change and now
the more immediate danger of human persecution and habitat
degradation. In less than two decades, numbers have dropped 95%
from 1,000,000 to 50,000.
The current but untested hypothesis is that a combination of
unusual weather, topography and pasture improvement resulted in
fast-growing, moist and atypically composed forage, which caused a
form of metabolite toxicosis.
An analysis of assumptions underlying this hypothesis using
meteorological data and satellite imagery revealed that neither
temporal variation in weather nor highly-productive, moist forage
are likely to have been factors in the die-offs; although
significantly lower vegetation or soil moisture in die-off zones
than in the surrounding landscape indicates events were
location-dependent, and therefore precipitated by changes in
calving site selection driven by human…