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Hundreds of elephants found dead due to unidentified reason https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-53257512
Estimated death toll currently is 330.

What is going on guys I'm scared af

>> No.11860612

>>11860590
i saw that. pretty fucking sad. i thought this bit was weird
>The way the animals appear to be dying - many dropping on their faces - and sightings of other elephants walking in circles points to something potentially attacking their neurological systems
poor jumbo :(
also if there's a virus that can eat elephants' brains, if it ever crosses to humans we're fucked

>> No.11860770

>>11860590
>due to unidentified reason
The "unidentified reason" is always Americans and their weapon/hunt/trophy obsession

>> No.11860775

>>11860590
Probably some American poisoned them

mutts are known for torturing animals in Africa (and no I’m not talking about black people, I meant actual animals )

>> No.11861066

>>11860770
>>11860775
"It is only elephants that are dying and nothing else," Dr McCann said. "If it was cyanide used by poachers, you would expect to see other deaths."

Back in May, Botswana's government ruled out poaching as a reason - noting the tusks had not been removed, according to Phys.org.

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11861079

Looks like a drought forced them to drink from water infested with blue-green algae.

>> No.11861102

>>11860590
I'd think the Chinese have something to do with it. The arrogant mother fuckers have been doing all kinds of fucked up CRISPR type shit to wild animals all over the world for years.

>> No.11861107

>>11861079
GROWTH PROSPERITY AND JOBS

>> No.11861111

>>11861079
Shouldn't other animals be drinking from the same watering hole and dying as well?

>> No.11861115

>>11861107
ngl, that image makes me want to die.

>> No.11861130

>>11861115
there are new consumers near by

ECONOMIC GROWTH

>> No.11861132

>>11861111
Not necessarily. Remember these elephants are being moved here from other parts of Africa, places further north where droughts are less likely to happen. The animals already in Botswana would be resistant to cyanotoxins, it is pretty much a desert after all.

Anyways it's just a theory.

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>>11860612
The brainlets shall inherit the world

>> No.11861256

>>11860590
some african that lives there said and posted links how - that country where that happened recently issued a bunch of hunting licenses and opened up new legal hunting grounds because - the population got out of hand and the elephants are pestering the populace
The guy wise like - i probably think our goverment made a mistake or just wants to profit out of this because that sounds unreasonable

>> No.11861584

>>11860590
Chronic Wasting Disease should be examined as a possiblity. It was only a matter of time before the filth jumped again to another group of mammals, since humans have once again refused to clean up their mess.

>> No.11861588

>>11860775
That was my first thought as well. My first guess was farmers poisoning them with a neurotoxin.

>> No.11861637

>>11860770
howdy buttmad yuro, did your sub get b&?
poor baby

>> No.11863174

>>11860590
>I'm scared af
Are you an elephant by chance?

>> No.11863204

>>11863174
no but it gives me the spooks

>> No.11863214

>>11863204
Maybe you were an elephant in your previous life

>> No.11863235

>>11860770
but their not being butchered or tusked which indicates otherwise, unless their just that spiteful they'd poison them in revenge for the death of the trade, poison would be purty obvious through a blood analyses tho.

>> No.11863236

>>11861132
>it's just a theory
No. It's just an hypothesis.

>> No.11863264

>>11860590
Imagine the smell.

>> No.11863265

People are fking scumbags. Not preserving nature.

>> No.11863329

>>11860612

Prions? Just like the deer in North America?
Brain eating Amoeba?

>> No.11863331

>>11861130
ferengi'd

>> No.11864339

>>11863265
>Not preserving nature.
lots of people preserve nature to the detriment of themselves lol. Don't try to shit on all poor countries for this

>> No.11864347

>>11860590
Noooo not the elephantarinos.

>> No.11864355

>>11860590
Elephants are smart. Can they die of depression or suicide?

>> No.11864376

>>11864355
Doesn't take much brainpower to self destruct.

>> No.11864416

>>11864376
Takes a lot to overwhelm self preservation

>> No.11864432

>>11864347
fuck you

>> No.11865068

N

>> No.11865070

I

>> No.11865072

>>11860590
They got the 'rona

>> No.11865123

Hah, they live for decades as vegetarians just to die from something that looks like a prion. Not so smart now, huh?