The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction

[turbinetree]

There was almost something biblical about the scene of devastation that lay before Richard Kock as he stood in the wilderness of the Kazakhstan steppe. Dotted across the grassy plain, as far as the eye could see, were the corpses of thousands upon thousands of saiga antelopes. All appeared to have fallen where they were feeding.

Some were mothers that had travelled to this remote wilderness for the annual calving season, while others were their offspring, just a few days old. Each had died in just a few hours from blood poisoning. In the 30C heat of a May day, the air around each of the rotting hulks was thick with flies.

The same grisly story has been replayed throughout Kazakhstan. In this springtime massacre, an estimated 200,000 critically endangered saiga – around 60% of the world’s population – died. “All the carcasses in this one of many killing zones were spread evenly over 20 sq km,” says Kock, professor of wildlife health and emerging diseases at the Royal Veterinary College in London. “The pattern was strange. They were either grazing normally with their newborn calves or dying where they stood, as if a switch had been turned on. I’ve never seen anything like that.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/25/mass-mortality-events-animal-conservation-climate-change


Anyone not thinking that climate change is fake fucking news....................


Your fucked up in the head.............Pruitt, sexual predator, Zinke, Carson, ect.......................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I want to indict and prosecute and imprison anyone denying climate change before

it is too late and everyone and every thing is dead.

Madness.

[CrispyQ]

2. So sad.

The scientists on the ground pinpointed blood poisoning as the cause, but were puzzled as to why whole herds were dying so quickly. After 32 postmortems, they concluded the culprit was the bacterium Pasteurella multocida, which they believe normally lives harmlessly in the tonsils of some, if not all, of the antelopes. In a research paper published in January in Science Advances, Kock and colleagues contrasted the 2015 MME with the two from the 1980s. They concluded that a rise in temperature to 37C and an increase in humidity above 80% in the previous few days had stimulated the bacteria to pass into the bloodstream where it caused haemorrhagic septicaemia, or blood poisoning.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Thank you for posting. A sad K & R.

[turbinetree]

4. Your welcome

Since the corporate media is being diverted by a sexual predator con artist and Pt. Barnum show

[ffr]

5. No details on how they convinced the animals to become crisis actors.

Fuck Fox and conservatives!

[malaise]

6. This is too sad

Humans are fucking up everything in sight.

[Sophia4]

7. Thanks for posting this important news.

[turbinetree]

9. Your welcome

I hope that Maddow, Hayes and O'Donnell, Stephanie Miller, Democracy Now will report this information, this is just amazing, that the link has been made..........................

[Silver Gaia]

8. This isn't just sad. It's horrifying and alarming!

[Duppers]

10. K & R

We're ending most life on the planet via our normal human lifestyles. Our time is also coming.



Keep those thoughts and prayers coming.

[turbinetree]

11. No kidding "thoughts and prayer's "