They check their homes for survivors, and pick up a little girl and a dog. Starting from the high school, the students escape into town where they must deal with a corrupt teacher and his students.
As the cast tries to survive the zombie apocalypse, they must also face the additional threats of societal collapse, in the form of dangerous fellow survivors, and the possible decay of their own moral codes. The story follows a group of high school students and the school's nurse as they deal with the worldwide catastrophic event known as the "Outbreak". Highschool of the Dead is set in present-day Japan, beginning as the world is struck by a deadly pandemic that turns humans into zombies, euphemistically referred to by the main characters as "Them" ( 奴ら, Yatsu-ra). See also: List of Highschool of the Dead characters
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Sentai Filmworks released an English dub of the anime series and OVA on DVD and Blu-ray in North America. Madhouse also produced an original video animation (OVA) episode in 2011. The story follows a group of high school students caught in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.Ī 12-episode anime adaptation, produced by Madhouse and covering the first four volumes, aired in Japan from July 5 to September 20, 2010. Yen Press published the series in North America. Fujimi Shobo and Kadokawa Shoten published seven tankōbon volumes from March 2007 and April 2011 in Japan. It was serialized in Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age between the September 2006 and May 2013 issues, but was left unfinished following Daisuke Satō's death in March 2017. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Highschool of the Dead, known in Japan as Apocalyptic Academy: Highschool of the Dead ( Japanese: 学園黙示録 HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD, Hepburn: Gakuen Mokushiroku Haisukūru obu za Deddo), is a Japanese manga series written by Daisuke Satō and illustrated by Shōji Satō. Sumatran elephants are a subspecies of the Asian elephant, one of two species of the large mammal in the world.Ĭopyright 2021 The Associated Press. Indonesian forestry and environment ministry’s data showed the Sumatran elephant population has shrunk from 1,300 in 2014 to 693, down nearly 50% in the past seven years. The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, has raised the status of the Sumatran elephant from endangered to critically endangered in its 2012 Red List, mostly because of a significant drop in the population as indicated by the loss of over 69% of its potential habitat in the last 25 years - the equivalent of one generation. Police arrested a suspected poacher along with four people accused of buying ivory from the dead animal. In July, an elephant was found without its head at a palm plantation in East Aceh. The number of Sumatran elephants that have died as a result of being snared and poisoning has reached 25 in the past nine years in East Aceh district alone, Arianto said. “She suddenly fell ill from stress and infection late Monday and by morning she was reported dead.”Ĭonservationists say that the coronavirus pandemic has led to increased poaching in Sumatra as villagers turn to hunting for economic reasons.
because she looked fine after being amputated and actively moving,” said Rika Marwati, a veterinarian at the center.
He said that wildlife officials on Monday had to amputate half of the trunk in a life-or-death operation at an elephant training center near Banda Aceh, the provincial capital. She was found very weak with a snare still embedded in her almost-severed trunk on Sunday in Alue Meuraksa, a forested village in the Aceh Jaya district, according to conservation officials.Īrianto told reporters that an autopsy was underway by a team of vets to determine the causes of the baby elephant's death. The 1-year-old female was among the last of the island’s 700 wild Sumatran elephants. “Its trunk was getting rotten and no longer functioning.” “We have tried our best, but it can’t be helped either,” said Agus Arianto, the head of Aceh province’s conservation agency. (AP Photo/Munandar, File) (Munandar) Novemat 4:29 am CST By RISKA MUNAWARAHīANDA ACEH, Indonesia - (AP) - A baby elephant in Indonesia’s Sumatra island died Tuesday after losing half her trunk to a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species, officials said, despite efforts to amputate and treat her wounds. The elephant died Tuesday after losing half her trunk to a trap set by poachers who prey on the endangered species, officials said, despite efforts to amputate and treat her wounds. Indonesia Endangered Elephant File - A Sumatran elephant calf that lost half of its trunk, is treated at an elephant conservation center in Saree, Aceh Besar, Indonesia, Monday, Nov.