Anthrax May Have Killed 100 Hippos in Namibia
In just over a week, the carcasses, weighing several tons, were spotted in a park.
It's a shocking image.
Lots of hippos, some lying on their sides, others completely belly up, but all mysteriously dead and partially submerged in a lake in Namibia. What confuses locals even more is how quickly it happened.
The first hippo was spotted on October 1, said the acting director of Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Johnson Ndokosho. Since then, at least 100 have turned up dead in the western region of Bwabwata National Park, which sits in a northeastern Namibian strip, sandwiched between Angola and Botswana.
"It had not broken out for a while," said Ndokosho. Early theories for the massive die off are centered around previous die offs caused by a lethal bacteria with a household name.
"We suspect
