International experts are investigating the sudden deaths of more than 100,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, officials said Wednesday, raising fears that a species that has been around since the Ice Age may be at risk of dying out.
Around 40 percent of the Central Asian nation’s population of the endangered saiga antelope have died in the past two weeks. Animal health experts suspect a respiratory disease may be to blame.
Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth-largest country by area, is home to around 90 percent of the world’s population of the saiga, recognizable by their lyre-shaped horns and bulbous nose.
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