Ice Age Antelope Under Threat | On Assignment

when mammoths walk the earth so did
Saiga’s but their time may have come
I’m Lucy McNeil and this is National
Geographic on assignment you’re linked
to thousands of NatGeo expeditions
around the globe today we’re off to
western mongolia Saiga’s are a relic of
the last ice age and roam Central Asia
alongside mammoths and saber-toothed
Tigers for days
now these antelopes are critically
endangered and then numbers keep
plummeting national Geographics bubay
Betar by avatar is trying to find
answers his team studies baby sizes and
in this rare footage we see them placing
a radio collar on a newborn tracking
cars like this one will shed light on
how many are surviving and help
scientists map their movements around
populated areas knowing where the
sliders migrate can help protect areas
for their survival
that’s National Geographic on assignment
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