Tibet wild

morphology

Kiang (11)

Head short and wide, slightly blunt snout, ears more than 170 mm long, short and straight mane mane, half or 1/3 the tail section from the trailing end of the bristle born tail, thick limbs, both inside forelimbs round corpus callosum, commonly known as "night eyes", hoof narrow and high. Milky white snout, dorsal brown or dark brown (blackish summer wool), threatening deep coat, to dark brown, from the rear end of the shoulder neck mane along the spine to the tail, with a clear or tan narrow dark brown ridge, commonly known as "back down", the outer portions have a significant scapular brown stripes, shoulder wedge rear mask typical white spots, the front spot ventral horn of this curved, abdomen, and inner limbs white belly the light areas apparent to the side extension, pale brown outer limbs, the arm body around the hue of white and mixed without clear boundaries. Adult summer hair darker.

Kiang copied large herbivores Plateau, shape and Mongolian wild ass, mule similar, Apex, ridge back, and tail tip bristles deeper above the snout, the neck, chest, abdomen, limbs, etc. opalescent, clear color boundary sides of the torso. Generally summer hair darker, winter hair lighter, darker coat larvae, was yellow sand, long nap, after the second summer molting fur like an adult.

habitats

Kiang life in the alpine desert, summer to an altitude of over 5000 meters of mountain life in winter to lower elevations. Cluster good life, good at running, high vigilance. He likes to eat grass, sedges and Artemisia. You will find the right place in the arid environment with hooves dig pits dug for drinking water, but also for the Tibetan antelope and other hoofed animals drinking water.

Habits

Tibetan wild ass cluster activity habits, female donkeys, male donkey and the young donkey wandering together through year-round living. 5-8 or 20-30 pigs per group head. In the summer, the plants a good condition and little human disturbance place, Kiang group will be great. The number of individuals living in Xinjiang Altun Mountain Nature Reserve, according to Shaker Patti lake Kiang group, often in large groups of between 200 to 100 bulls bulls. In the area of ​​Hal Teng Basin Northern Qaidam Basin, usually 3-5 knot in small groups, individual wild ass alone activities are also more common.

Kiang extremely resistant to drought, water may not be for several days. Their hearing, smell, sight, are very sensitive, able to detect the case outside of a few hundred meters away from their own. If you find someone approaching predators or attack, first quietly looked up watching, staring for a moment, then Yangti sprint. After ran some distance, I feel safe, and to stop standing on the sidelines, and then run again. Always running, stop, look and then run. Cluster good life, good at running, high vigilance. He likes to eat grass, sedges and Artemisia.

Kiang there is a very special habits, likes and car racing. When your vehicle into the activities of Tibet wild ass, wild ass will be far curiously watching the approaching their car. When the car with them relatively close, wild ass then rushing forward, and strive to maintain a parallel to the automobile. Sometimes the driver and also intends to advance scientific wild ass, the car drove 60 kilometers per hour and the wild ass game. Wild Ass and car racing, the final total to go to the front of the car, from the car before and after, before they agree to give up. After a wild ass over the car, often to continue to run for a while, then stop and wait and see. Sometimes wild ass because of this one hundred kinds of odd behavior and lose their lives, some of the poachers to kill wild ass is driving a car. There was a car and four wild asses ran neck and neck a dozen kilometers at an altitude of 4000 meters of desert, wild ass pace did not slow down. Although the Tibetan wild ass excellent stamina, breath can run 40-50 km without a break, but with a long car chase wild animals they may have adverse consequences. Run into this kind of "game" and finally people are actively slow down, let the wild ass go to the front of the car.

Kiang have seasonal short distance migration habits. Activities usually very regular, early in the morning to drink at the water during the day and feed on grass, resting in the evening back to the depths of the mountain overnight. To wander dozens of kilometers every day. In the regular activities of the local wild ass, wild ass like when Tibet movement is not disturbed in their line up all the way columns, single file line. In the near meadows water, often walk along fixed routes, leaving a unique "donkey diameter" on the grass. Donkey diameter 20 cm wide, criss-cross the entire stretch.

Tibetan wild ass when smart arid, will choose high underground water level in the bend of "digging wells." They dig with a hoof about half a meter deep puddles on the beach, local herders known as the "ass well." These puddles in addition to their own drinking, but also provides a source of water for the Tibetan antelope, Tibetan gazelle, geese, gazelle and other animals.

distribution

Tibetan wild ass, native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, located in western China, northern Nepal, Pakistan and India.

Kiang mainly in Qinghai Yushu, Golog, rambling and Haixi, Axel Gansu, Sunan, North-South and Maqu, Xinjiang Altun and other places, Nagqu Prefecture in Tibet west north-west, Xigaze and Ngari Prefecture, Sichuan.

Reproduction

Kiang annual 7--12 month is the breeding season, female births per 1 Aberdeen, when the cubs are born weighing up to 35 kg, 3 -4 degrees since the age of sexual maturity. Tibetan wild ass wild life of about 20 years old.

8 per year - 9 months, Tibetan wild ass into the reproductive mating season, this time, the male donkey temperament become ferocious, and frequently screamed. They frequent biting fierce competition for the right to mate. To win control of the whole activities of the wild ass male donkeys, the donkeys which only disobedient, for it to kick and bite. Tibetan wild ass takes good care of the pups, who saw a group of wild ass across the river, climb on the banks of a donkey, two big wild ass will stand in the middle of it, with a small shoulder to push ashore wild ass interesting behavior .

Subspecies

population status

Kiang the main predators, including wolves, snow leopards and lynx. Because appropriate protective measures, wild ass population increases every year, only in Qiangtang there are nearly 60,000. According to Liu Wulin, who estimates that in 1989 the number of Tibetan wild ass is about 56,000, the total number of 1998 close to 80,000. In addition, according to the WWF survey, there are a huge number of wild ass population in Ali Gerze County Chabug some areas in the north and north-west of Nyima County, the number of some groups more than 500. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the number of Tibetan wild ass is far above this figure, and reached 100,000.

In the past, the Tibetan Plateau Tibetan wild ass living in remote outlying, sparsely populated by the natural protection. But in recent years, some areas due to human food overgrazing caused extreme poverty, or because of human activities such as gold interference, illegal poaching phenomenon also occurred, Tibetan wild ass population is declining. In order to protect this species, the Chinese government will Kiang listed as a protected species, hunting is prohibited.

protection level

included in the "World Conservation Union" (IUCN) 2012 Red List of Threatened Species Nian ver3.1-- low risk (LC).

included CITESⅠ class protected animals, "the Washington Convention."

included in the "Chinese national key protected wild animal list" level.