fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months agoScientists discover why dozens of endangered elephants dropped deadwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down11cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanseverythingscience@lemmy.worldbiodiversity@mander.xyz
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minus-squareRagnarokOnline@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·11 months agoIn short: a local bacteria caused blood poisoning. A large herd of antelope died of a similar cause shortly before this group of elephants succumbed to the sickness as well.
minus-squaresj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoOnly tangentially related to the story, but people should learn what sepsis looks like because it’s quite a common killer of humans. Relatively benign bacteria can become deadly killers through a mud puddle or a bad cut in your mouth.
minus-squareGlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoit caused the death of my favorite singer-songwriter r.i.p. Ritsuko Okazaki
In short: a local bacteria caused blood poisoning.
A large herd of antelope died of a similar cause shortly before this group of elephants succumbed to the sickness as well.
Only tangentially related to the story, but people should learn what sepsis looks like because it’s quite a common killer of humans.
Relatively benign bacteria can become deadly killers through a mud puddle or a bad cut in your mouth.
it caused the death of my favorite singer-songwriter
r.i.p. Ritsuko Okazaki