The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae), native to the Tibetan Plateau, faces persecution as an agricultural pest despite its important role in maintaining grassland ecosystems. The irony that one of ...

The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae), native to the Tibetan Plateau, faces persecution as an agricultural pest despite its important role in maintaining grassland ecosystems. The irony that one of ...

She’s a Geo unit. Her Constellation is called Ochotona Princeps, and her title is Mottled Gold Yet Unsmelted. The profile discussing her noted she has the name “Uthabiti” and she is ...

Abstract: Ochotona curzoniae is one of the main creature calamities in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With the development of advanced biological recognition technologies, a new scientific method is provided ...

ABSTRACT: It is well known that avian predators can use prey excretions such as urine and feces to track their prey, and the urine and feces of small mammalian herbivores can reflect ultraviolet (UV) ...

You could call it one of the world's longest games of hide and seek. For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis), a type of tiny, mountain-dwelling mammal with a teddy bear face ...

[PhD dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 397pp. 2000] Building New Partnerships for Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Tibetan Plateau Region: Recent Experiences in the ...

In this study, plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) was used to investigate such effects at three alpine meadow sites on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, where pairs of disturbed vs. undisturbed plots were ...

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They found that, to get through the winters, when temperatures fall down to -22°F (-30°C), plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) adopt a number of strategies. Alongside sometimes eating yak ...