Death Of Elephants

 

In Botswana Africa there are recent found of more than 300 elephants’ carcasses or dead bodies of elephants where then authorities baffled and found the deaths to be mysterious. But now recently they now know the cause.

According to what they have discovered or findings, the cause of mysterious death is a toxin produce by a bacteria called “cyanobacteria” in the water. The elephants may have drunk a water together with the toxin. This bacteria produces toxin that not only can kill animals but also humans.

“Officials in Botswana say the deaths of hundreds of elephants in recent months which baffled and alarmed conservationists in the country were caused by toxins produced by cyanobacteria in water….."Our latest tests have detected cyanobacterial neurotoxins to be the cause of deaths. These are bacteria found in water," Mmadi Reuben, principal veterinary officer at the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, told a news conference on Monday.” (Aljazeera)

“Toxins made by microscopic algae in water caused the previously unexplained deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana, wildlife officials say.”(BBC)

image from Aljazeera website