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.

Huge numbers of world’s biggest seals die in 'very worrying' bird flu outbreak

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the ...

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 ...
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Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals

Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its ...
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Avian Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of Breeding Elephant Seals at World’s Largest Colony

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

'Bleak' Future For Seals Decimated By Bird Flu, Scientists Warn

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

Meet The World's Second Biggest Flightless Bird

The emu is the world's second-largest flightless bird, which is native to Australia.