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Mystery solved for mass mortality event
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.k384
Subject(s) - wildlife , event (particle physics) , mass gathering , history , geography , demography , medicine , biology , ecology , sociology , pathology , public health , physics , quantum mechanics
It's been almost three years since over 200,000 saiga antelopes died in central Kazakhstan, in a mass mortality event that shocked researchers and wildlife experts alike. But now, as Georgina Mills explains, research has revealed that there was more to the deaths than first thought.