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Bird Flu Wiped Out Nearly Half of the Females in the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Drone Images Suggest

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest ...

Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.
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Avian flu decimates seal elephant population in South Georgia; few survivors emerge in Uruguayan beaches

In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both ...
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Avian flu decimates the world’s largest population of elephant seals: Half of the females have disappeared

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s ...

Bird flu kills half of the world’s largest elephant seals population

A new study has found that bird flu wiped out half of the world’s largest population of elephant seals. Researchers have ...

Bird flu wipes out nearly half of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

Aerial footage reveals alarming phenomenon on remote island: 'Felt for years'

Cruising high over a remote sub-Antarctic island, drones have captured a situation unfolding that has scientists alarmed. The ...
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A Trillion-Ton Megaberg is Heading for South Georgia Island: Here’s What it Means for the Wildlife That Lives There

A 130-foot towering wall of ice with a surface area larger than Rhode Island is slowly making its way toward a remote island ...