Great. Plague bears. Didn't have that on the 2026 bingo card....

Australia is (has?) pulling all research scientists off Macquarie Island due to worries about the potential stress of thousands of seals dying en-mass:

But once it arrives, up to 90 percent of baby elephant seals could perish, as happened on Heard Island over summer, when 13,000 pups died from bird flu.

https://no.lastname.nz/post/3705660

Not like we’re leaving them much habitat to live on anyway.

I fear this flu season will be horrible for people too. Poor bears :(