Returning from a recent 1,000-mile expedition across Tibet's remote Chang Tang region, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) biologist George Schaller reports that the Tibetan antelope -- once the ...
Tibetan antelopes live at high elevations where the partial pressure of oxygen is roughly half that at sea level — how do they do this? An adult male Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) ...
Adult Tibetan antelope have overcome oxygen deprivation on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau through an unusual adaptation in which they permanently express a form of hemoglobin (the iron-containing ...
Results from a recent WWF research expedition into Tibet’s Chang Tang nature reserve show that poaching of the endangered Tibetan antelope continues unabated, despite a complete ban on hunting within ...
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today applauded a decision today by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Tibetan antelope, also known as "chiru," as an endangered ...
May 17, 2013, Shenzhen, China---- Why Tibetan antelope can live at elevations of 4,000-5,000m on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau? In a collaborative research published in Nature Communications, ...
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today applauded a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Tibetan antelope, also known as “chiru,” as an endangered species.
XINING -- Patrollers have rescued eight Tibetan antelope calves in China's high plateau Hoh Xil national nature reserve in Qinghai Province, local authorities said Wednesday. The calves were ...
Liu Qiuying waved her arms as quickly as she could in the middle of the busy Qinghai-Tibet Highway while a heavily-laden truck hurtled toward her. After the driver abruptly applied the brakes she ...