The current endangered status of Near East gazelles may have been the fault of humans long before modernity, a new study finds. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Bedouin tribes in the Near East—an area that includes modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria—used long stone walls known as desert kites, which ranged for up to tens of kilometers before ending in circular pits, to wantonly slaughter migrating gazelle herds.
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