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Long-term Study Shows Effect of Climate Change on Animal Diversity
August 18, 2008
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Two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with multitudes of rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited what is now northern Pakistan.Full StorySource
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