While searching for a news story for this prompt, I wasn't seeming to have much luck. I looked for a pretty decent amount of time, until I came across an article about 60,000 antelopes were all killed in a matter of 4 days. I was intrigued, and I knew that it would be able to show the importance of animal science and those working in the field.
This particular incident with the antelopes took place in Kazakhstan, and a geoecologist and his colleagues were the ones who went to Asia to try to figure out this unusual phenomenon. They came to the conclusion that more than half of the herd died; and it happened very rapidly. From the research of geoecologists, veterinarians, and many others with further knowledge on animals came to the conclusion that one of the biggest roles in the death of so many antelopes was bacteria. According to those who researched this odd phenomenon, something like this hasn't been observed for any other species. It was observed that the females were the ones to pass the quickest, with their calves being next. With that information, is has been thought that whatever was killing the antelopes was being transmitted through the mothers' milk.
Obviously, according to this article, without those who went to Asia, we wouldn't know anything about what killed the antelopes. It isn't positive what exactly was the cause, but those who researched it have a pretty good idea of what happened. In the field of animal science, there are a lot of career options, like I have stated in previous blog posts. In a situation like this one in Asia, someone who studied animal science would be the perfect person to go there and try to figure out what went wrong. Without animal scientists, situations like that would be unsolved and animals would be dying out a lot faster than they already are. We need people in the world to be able to deal with situations such as this one.
- Jamie R.
Source:
Ghose, Tia. "What Killed 60,000 Antelope in 4 Days? : DNews."
DNews. Discovery Communications, 4 Sept. 2015. Web. 19 Nov. 2015.
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