2007/07/02

Saving the Saiga antelope

News from the Caravan: Wild Kazakhstan:
The Rise and Fall of the Saiga
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One of the main species to be protected is the saiga, an ungulate (hooved mammal) that’s somewhere between a sheep and an antelope. It looks like a critter Dr. Seuss would think up, and the story of the saiga is like that of the truffula tree. From millions to rare, back to millions, and now endangered again, in little more than a century.
"Dr. Seuss" indeed! But it still reminds me of Zoidberg.

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