{"id":8081,"date":"2024-11-12T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:27:42","slug":"elephant-seal-colony-lost-95-of-its-pups-to-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/12\/elephant-seal-colony-lost-95-of-its-pups-to-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant seal colony lost 95% of its pups to bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/elephant-seal-colony-lost-95-of-its-pups-to-bird-flu\/\">Earth.com<\/a> A year after an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza swept through elephant seal breeding grounds on Pen\u00ednsula Vald\u00e9s in Argentina, the beaches are quieter, and the normally bustling colonies have drastically diminished.\u00a0The bird flu outbreak, which killed over 17,000 elephant seals, including almost 97% of the pups, has left a scar on this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/elephant-seals-have-genetic-scars-from-intense-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerable population<\/a>, with only about a third of the seals typically expected here returning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s beautiful to walk the beaches now and hear elephant seals again,\u201d said Marcela Uhart, director of the Latin America Program at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/\">UC Davis<\/a>\u00a0Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/elephant-seal-colony-lost-95-of-its-pups-to-bird-flu\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" d QkaiRjKWKn Ca\"> d QkaiRjKWKn Ca<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth.com A year after an unprecedented outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza swept through elephant seal breeding grounds on Pen\u00ednsula Vald\u00e9s in Argentina, the beaches are quieter, and the normally bustling colonies have drastically diminished.\u00a0The bird flu outbreak, which killed over 17,000 elephant seals, including almost 97% of the pups, has left a scar on this&nbsp;vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}