But they’re still out there, and earlier this year, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture performed a population survey and found there were over 108,000 adult saiga antelope to observe, mostly in the Ural area.
Thankfully, the wave of antelope deaths was not, in fact, signaling the extinction of the Saiga Antelope.
At the time when the episode was filmed, scientists was predicting that half of that particular species had been wiped out by the mysterious infection, and it definitely remains endangered around the world at this point.