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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 meteorological perceptions. Results give experiences int
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RED MARMOT

By Dr Ramesh Behera

LONG-TAILED MARMOT / RED MARMOT -

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Family-Sciuridae,  

Sp.-Marmota caudata , Jacquemont-1844.   


Altitude- 2400-5500m


                        This is a handsome and more richly coloured marmot.

Characters:

                    Marmots are the second biggest rodents (after beavers) in the Palearctic region. The body shape and size of these creatures mirror their fossorial, or mostly underground, life. Marmots are strong and box-molded, with the legs separated. The rear legs are more limited than the forelegs. Their bodies are smoothed out and adaptable, and marmots are fit for pushing their direction through thin openings. They can take an alternate route during sharp turns. Red marmots weigh as much as 8 to 9 kg. Every one of the four feet have five digits with durable, gruff paws. Cushions on the digits are very advanced. These cushions capability to assist with raking up earth and repay somewhat for the total or halfway decrease of the fifth digit. Different digits are long, adaptable, and fit for holding dainty plant stems.The head of red marmots is smoothed, and the neck is short. The enormous eyes are near the highest point of the head, permitting the creature to see the landscape over the ground while staying inside the tunnel. Ears are little and scarcely stretch out past the fur. Long wiskers are situated on checks, lower jaw, around the nose, and eyes.


 Distribution:

North of Kashmir, stretching out in to Gilgit, Chitral, Hunza and Ladakh and onwards in to the focal Asian high countries. Anyway Red marmots, Marmota caudata, additionally know as brilliant or long-followed marmots, are tracked down in high snow capped knolls of the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Tien Shen heaps of Focal Asia.

Breeding:

The mating framework and conduct of red marmots have not been accounted for. Be that as it may, other mountain-staying marmots will generally mate polygynously. There is in many cases a time of romance way of behaving, which might incorporate common sniffing, locking teeth, or fighting. During relations, which might happen a few times each day, the male commonly utilizes his teeth to hold the female by the skin of her neck or head. Lovemaking of some mountain-staying marmots might happen before rising up out of the tunnel in spring. This is by all accounts constrained by the length of the time, with more limited summers being related with in-tunnel rearing. In certain species, for example, the dark covered marmot, females may not rise out of the tunnel until a couple of days prior to whelping. As a rule, female red marmots physically mature close to two years old, so they don't raise until their third summer. Time of sexual development appears to rely upon the height and the span of hibernation. At lower heights, exactly two year old female red marmots have effectively weaned litters. Females bring forth and back youthful in a litter tunnel. Red marmots have sex in their tunnels before they show up on a superficial level after winter hibernation. After a short growth (30 to 35 days), the female brings forth altricial youthful. Litters regularly contain 4 to 5 youthful, however can contain up to 10. As a general rule, inside the marmots, litter size is adversely connected with size of the child.

                The red marmot is a fast declining species in Himalaya. This is primarily due to the ruthless destruction of its habit and extensive poaching for its meat and fur. 


(Sharma-1994 & Alamy)




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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