第一眼就被迷住了!
最近你有被这只萌萌的小动物刷屏吗?
这只又像鼠又像兔的萌物,叫伊犁鼠兔(Ili pika)。它是新疆的特有物种,生活在天山山脉高寒山区。
An Ili pika has been spotted by a volunteer team in the mountain areas of Jinghe county, located in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
There are less than 1,000 Ili pika remaining, making them rarer than giant pandas. 伊犁鼠兔目前不足1000只,比大熊猫还要稀有。 In 2008, the animal was listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 在2008年,伊犁鼠兔被列入《IUCN(世界自然保护联盟) 濒危物种红色名录》。
生长在高寒地带
吃“名贵药材”为生
The Ili pika is a beautiful animal with generally bright coloration. It has big rusty-red spots on the forehead, the top of the head and the sides of the neck. The hair color behind the ears and on the nape is pale. Adults are more than 200 millimeters long.
Resembling a rabbit and a mouse, the Ili Pika is endemic to Xinjiang and usually lives in holes between bare rocks at an altitude of 2,800m to 4,000m. They are used to living on the extremely cold plateau and feeding on herbs like rhodiola and snow lotus, found in the Tianshan Mountains.
其实,伊犁鼠兔是偶然间被发现的。
1983年7月,伊犁地区防疫站组织了一支自然疫源地调查队,驻扎在尼勒克县吉里马拉勒山山谷,李维东作为防疫工作人员,参加了此次调查。
In July 1983, when Li Weidong was conducting fieldwork for the local health and epidemic prevention authority, he noticed a small creature emerging from a gap between large rocks in the mountains in the Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture.
调查结束,李维东回到单位查阅了国内外大量文献,初步确定为动物新种。
Li, who was familiar with rodents, was unable to discover any records relating to it. In 1986, the animal was recognized as a new species, so Li decided to call it the "Ili Pika" and devote himself to its conservation.
在之后的几十年里,李维东组织20位志愿者与他一起,全身心投入到寻找伊犁鼠兔的调查科研和保护工作当中。
"Global warming has forced the animals to move further up the mountain. The size of their habitat has shrunk by 70 percent," said Li.
这些年来,随着天山1号冰川保护区域和中华伊犁鼠兔保护地先后建立,伊犁鼠兔最后的栖息地被保护了下来。
早在伊犁鼠兔上一次被拍到的时候,它萌萌的外表就吸引了一批国外媒体。
BBC:中国的伊犁鼠兔:“神奇的兔子”火了
《国家地理杂志》直呼,谁会拒绝这样一张小萌脸?
Unbelievably cute mammal with teddy bear face rediscovered这小动物可爱到难以置信,长着泰迪熊的脸,又被发现了
来源:新华社 中新网 CNN 国家地理杂志 BBC
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