TIL diclofenac, a common painkiller drug once given to livestock, was a major contributing factor in the rapid decline of vultures in India, where nine species suffered a population collapse exceeding 99.5%, with three Gyps species dropping from about 40 million in the 1980s to about 19000 in 2017,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
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