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If the animals breath in the volcanic ash it is like they are smoking. To much carbon dioxide is in their lungs, resulting in CO2 poisoning.

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The affects depend on the different types of magma involved. The eruption in Iceland contains high levels of fluorine. The fluorine becomes attached to ash particles which contaminate the grasses on which animals feed. Animals that feed on the contaminated grasses contract flourosis which is a fatal bone decease. It can damage their eyes, teeth, bones and internal organs. At high enough intake, it will result in death. Right now the livestock in Iceland is being kept inside for the season and being fed with dry hay.

Flourosis can affect other animals and humans.

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