A Saiga

07/26/2024

Saiga, margach or saiga - artiodactyl behavior from the subfamily of true antelopes

07/25/2024

The saiga antelope is a critically endangered antelope that originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone

📷 Tim Flach

07/25/2024

07/25/2024

Is the Saiga-12 shotgun illegal?
Feat of the Week: Saiga 12 — The McCluskey Arms Company
Banned from import in 2014, these Russian semi-automatic, gas operated shotguns are increasingly rare.

07/25/2024

What killed the saiga?
The Lethal Environmental Change

The incredibly large mass die-offs were ultimately linked to heat and humidity fluctuations (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00959-w). The bacterium which was found to kill 120,000 individuals is Pasteurella multocida, a microbe normally harmless to Saiga antelopes.

07/16/2024

Places lived
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Where does the saiga antelope live
Presently, saiga persist only in Asia and southeastern parts of Europe that include Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia. Say graze. Herds of saiga feast on grass, herbs, lichens, and low-growing shrubs.

07/14/2024

Habitat
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Where do saiga antelope live
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Presently, saiga persist only in Asia and southeastern parts of Europe that include Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia. Say graze. Herds of saiga feast on grass, herbs, lichens, and low-growing shrubs. In the summer months, they feed in morning and evening, and rest at midday.

07/14/2024

The saiga antelope, or saiga, is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.