Овцебыки, шерстистые арктические животные пережившие эпоху плейстоцена, столкнулись с множеством проблем с конца последнего ледникового периода. Однако теперь им угрожает обыкновенная бактерия.
A bacterium common to farm animals is threatening the Arctic's muskoxen - ArcticToday
Muskoxen, shaggy-haired Arctic survivors of the Pleistocene era, have faced a lot of challenges since the end of the last Ice Age. Now there is another: a bacterium more common to southern farm animals like pigs and chickens. Signs of exposure to bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae have been found in muskoxen around the north, and peak
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