Asia's odd-ball antelope faces migration crisis

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A saiga mother and calf. Saiga are now threatened by development in Mongolia that threatens to choke off a key migration route. Credit: Rich Reading
A saiga mother and calf. Saiga are now threatened by development in Mongolia that threatens to choke off a key migration route. Credit: Rich Reading

Take a deer’s body, attach a camel’s head and add a Jimmy Durante nose, and you have a saiga – the odd-ball antelope with the enormous schnoz that lives on the isolated steppes of Central Asia. Unfortunately, they are as endangered as they are strange-looking due to over-hunting. Now, according to a recent Wildlife Conservation Society study, their migration routes are in jeopardy as well.


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