The team monitored and responded to outbreaks of wildlife - originating diseases, such
as the saiga antelope die - off in Kazakhstan and global outbreaks of avian influenza.
The scientists measured the percentage of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the bones of early humans and the locally present potential prey animals such
as saiga antelopes, horses, and deer.
Because of that, it also harbors some of the last great migratory spectacles of large mammals — over a million Mongolian gazelle as well
as saiga antelope, Tibetan gazelle, Tibetan antelope, and giant argali sheep — a total of 15 large mammals under consideration in this Initiative.»
Not exact matches
Milner - Gulland sees the results
as a cautionary note on
saigas» future in a changing climate.
The team discovered that the combination of mammals found together in the Altai and Sayan mountains of western Mongolia and southern Russia — such
as horses, reindeer,
saiga antelopes and wolverines — is similar to the ancient glacial communities.
For animals, this could mean making sure a population doesn't get so small that something like a disease outbreak — such
as the one that happened with
saiga antelope in 2015 — or a really bad winter results in extinction.
Proportional contribution of Deer & Horse (red deer and horse),
Saiga (
saiga antelope), Mammoth (woolly mammoth) and Hare (hare)
as estimated by Drucker et al for human remains from different layers of Buran - Kaya III; each symbol corresponds to the mean protein diet contribution to a given human individual.
He idolized a group of warriors known
as the Zenon Warriors, but when he interferes in one of their battles, they give up their lives and their
saigas to save him.
Ivory,
saiga horns, rare reptiles, bear paws, macaques, owls, and so on are constantly being seized at Chinese airports, but
as demand continues, so does supply.
In 2009, the
saiga conservationist Elena Bykova described the 1990s crash
as «the fastest decline ever recorded for a mammal species.»