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The mass death, a"conservation disaster" that occurred over the course of three months in Botswana's Okavango Delta, saw some elephant carcasses clustered around waterholes and others collapsed face-first on the ground. While the region is a known poaching hotspot, the tusks of the elephants were found intact, ruling out human interference and prompting scientists to look for other causes.
This extreme shift from drought to intense rainfall delivered dramatic volumes of water to waterholes that were either completely dry or had very little water remaining after the 2019 drought, according to apublished in the journal Science of The Total Environment.
The sudden death of more than 300 African elephants in early 2020 was likely caused by exceptional levels of toxins in water, satellite data has revealed.When the elephants drank from these contaminated waterholes, they would have ingested lethal doses of cyanotoxins, which may have led to organ failure and ultimately caused their deaths.
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