Scientists Say Lichen May Have Killed Elk


Posted by Amaranth Rose on Mar 27, 2004 at 14:32
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"A substance found in some weight-loss diet supplements — and in a type of lichen — may have fatally poisoned more than 300 elk in Wyoming in recent weeks, scientists say.

Scientists theorize the substance, usnic acid, may have caused the animals to weaken and collapse — too helpless to eat, drink or escape predators. The chemical was extracted from tumbleweed shield lichen, which grows on the ground in many northern states."

Scientists Say Lichen May Have Killed Elk


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