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How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human Disaster: Half a Million Deaths | The birds were accidentally poisoned in India. New research on what happened next shows how wildlife collapse can be deadly (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It explains the story in the first three paragraphs. I don’t think that’s too bad:

The hope is to give the story gist in the post itself, without expecting the person to click the link. In this case, "rotting carcasses polluted waterways and spread illness" would have resolved the clickbait.