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BHOPAL: As many as 20 endangered black bucks (Antelope Cervicapra) died so far after being attacked by dogs in muddy farm fields of different villages in Ashoknagar. The villagers release their dogs and even stray ones bite them”, sources said.Forest department sources said that maximum number of 200 black bucks died in the 2011 monsoon. Majority of them have been killed by stray dogs as the endangered antelopes get stuck in the marshy land and are unable to save themselves from the monster dogs Black bucks are an extremely vulnerable species and belong to schedule 1 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. When the fields are muddy, their hoofs are almost glued to the mud and they become virtually immovable. “The farmers in the village actually hate the antelopes because they damage their crops and the farmers hardly get any compensation..