High altitude wild animals at threat ?

High altitude environment of Himalayan region

By Dr Ramesh Behera
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          The high altitude environment has its own climatic complex of low atmospheric pressure,     atm ospheric cold, atmospheric aridity, light, snow cover, and also microclimate. The high-altitude areas pose threat to wildlife,threatened high-elevation mammal,  Multiple threats to Himalayan biodiversity, Other Threats and also feeling the impacts of climate change. High altitude environment of Himalayan region:- The Himalay, by prudence of its area and staggering level, goes about as an extraordinary climatic separation and manages meteorological circumstances in the subcontinent districts of South Asia. In any case, the related intricacies and their belongings are yet to be set out to figure out the meteorology of the Indian Himalayan District (IHR). In this audit volume, we combine the outcomes and derivations of a few examinations did in the IHR involving in situ information, somewhat detected information, and model-based meteoro...
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Interesting Facts About Himalayan Lynx

By Dr Ramesh Behera



     Himalayan Lynx:- 

    Family-Felcidae, Sp.-Felis lynx isabellina, Altitude-2745 to 4575m.

                The Himalayan lynx is isaballine colour and also long tufts of hairs on the tips of the ear are black-tipped. These hairs frame the face to adaptation with severe cold at high altitudes. The coat colour is seen darker in summer and fawn & white in winter. The length of the body is 85 to 90cm ,  tail 18 to 23 cm and weight around 27 Kg. of a matured lynx.


        The Lynx is also generally seen in Asia, Europe, Noth America, China, etc. It generally prefers to stay in dance vegetation of willow, scrub patches of reed, and tall grass. Though it is shy in nature, has a proverbial keen eye and a good sense of hearing. It hunts the hare, marmot, mice, young female bharal, and domestic sheep and goat.
      


                              It breeds in the month of August. The gestation period is 63 to 70 days.  Two to five cubs are born. Young lynxes are staying with their mother till the next mating.

    (Sharma-1994, Qamar Abbas khohhar, foreverindus.com)





    Actual habits: The lynx has a short body, extremely short tails, long strong legs and enormous paws. The short tail has a thick dark tip, yet no dark rings above. Their ears end in lengthy, dark hair tufts, and their cheeks are outlined by longer white and dark hair. Lynx in general body tone is gleaming dim, with a ruddy tone in summer coat. Youthful lynxes have dark spots all around the body, what blur with age, albeit a few grown-ups still show faint spots outwardly of the upper appendages and brow.

    Environment and Nature: In Focal Asia, Lynx happen in additional open, meagerly lush regions and steppe living spaces. The species most likely happens all through the northern inclines of the Himalayas, and has been accounted for both from thick clean forest and infertile, rough regions over the timberline. Lynx happen inconsistently all through the Tibetan level, and are tracked down all through the rough slopes and heaps of the Focal Asian desert locales. The Lynx has advanced feelings of vision, smell and hearing. They utilize their feeling of smell to recognize fragrances left by different lynxes and hunters in its reach while they rely upon their feelings of vision and hearing to find possible prey. Its eyes give great generally speaking constantly vision, yet when a potential prey shouldn't be visible, they depend on their feeling of hearing. Lynx chase generally in the late evening and night, becoming dynamic again with the main light of sunrise. The Lynx is a single hunter and go after rabbits, rodents, grouse, ungulates and foxes.

    Threats: Sporting exercises, Trash and strong waste, unlawful hunting, human aggravation, territory misfortune, and contest for scrounge with home-grown domesticated animals. Every oranization should be involved to protect life of this animal.

    Notes-  

    • Siberian lynx, is the largest of all; some males can weigh up to 84 pounds  (38 kilograms).
    • Lynx snow cat ( local name Eeh) found in Ladakh by political activist Sajjad Kargil in social media.
    • The term 'lynx' was coined from Middle English and passed down through Latin, which originated from the Greek word that came from the Indo-European root. The species was named after the shining quality of its reflective eyes.

    Being a veterinary doctor I have treated so many house keeping animals and birds in my life including wild animals and birds.

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