Six of the 35 elephants found dead in Zimbabwe in 2020 were discovered to have bizarre unclassified bacteria in their bodies.
The mystery of why hundreds of endangered African elephants have been dropping dead may have been solved by scientists.Thirty-four elephants were found dead in northwestern Zimbabwe between August 24 and September 20, 2020, with another single elephant found dead in November 2020. Only a few months earlier, around 350 elephants were found dead in Botswana's Okavango Delta.
The exact way that this bacterium was spread among the elephants is still unclear, but the authors suggest that it may have entered the elephants' bloodstreams due to the intense heat, in a similar manner to how other species of Pasteurella bacteria have caused deaths in other animals.
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