WCS documents pneumonia outbreak in endangered markhor

Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

If they didn't have enough to worry about from dodging poachers, snow leopards, and landslides in Central Asia's rugged mountains, a population of endangered markhor—a majestic wild goat species—has contracted pneumonia, detected for the first time by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners in Tajikistan and France.

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