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In times long ago, there once lived an old king who had three sons. One day the king became very ill and as he felt his death coming close, he called his three sons to his bedside and spoke to them. "Dear children! My life has come to its end. I will soon depart from this impermanent, transitory world, and enter again into the permanent, eternal world. After my release from this life you will take my place on the throne and will reign over my kingdom ......
We evaluated the repeatability, practical feasibility and comparability of three techniques for age estimation of saiga antelopes; the tooth sectioning technique (TS), the tooth eruption and wear technique (TEW), and a visual aging technique routinely used in field studies. We found that TS and TEW gave repeatable results, and agreed well. The visual method underestimated the age of males compared to laboratory methods. It assigned animals consistently to the age class of at least one year old, but less consistently to the age class less than one year old.
The study explores the social norms underpinning
consumption behaviour, and reveals an association between people
feeling that eating saiga meat is socially acceptable and them
actually consuming it. Forrest's findings underline the
significance of tackling meat consumption for saiga conservation,
and stress the need for a greater understanding of the human
dimensions surrounding saiga poaching, trade and
consumption.