DOCSLIB.ORG

Wildlife Tours Pandas in Qinling Mountains Trip Report

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Wildlife Tours Pandas in Qinling Mountains Trip Report Pandas of the Qinling Mountains A Greentours Trip Report 25th October – 7th (11th) November 2011 Led by Ian Green th Day 1 October 25 Departure Our evening departure was more or less on time. Gill had already departed Manchester and would meet us there. th Day 2 October 26 to Xi’an The night flight to Beijing was efficient, on time and as comfortable as could be expected, the later daylight hours of the flight taking us over the montane steppes of Mongolia, before descending into Beijing. In Xi’an we were met by our ground agents Zoe and Bill, and our local guide in Foping, Rolf. We opted for a swift rinse at the Grand New World Hotel within the Ming Dynasty city walls of old Xi’an before heading out to sample some local specialities in the Muslim Quarter. We had a fun hour wandering down a market street selling all sorts of appetising kebabs and filled pancakes. There were also glittering trinkets, Chinese paint brushes and paints, paintings, and some beautifully carved semi-precious stones. Most of the buildings within the city walls were modern high-rise, but our walk finished by the magnificent Drum and Bell towers. Then a hot shower and comfortable bed in our modern hotel! Day 3 October 27th to Foping Giant Panda Reserve After a superb multi-cuisine breakfast we were met by our drivers and Zoe and Rolf and set off for the five hour drive to Foping Nature Reserve. We made our way out of the traffic and smog of the city into the surrounding rich-soiled countryside, where we saw orchards and fields of persimmons, kiwi, squash, apples and maize covering every usable piece of land. One village positioned by a tributary of the Yellow River (its name meant 'golden rock') had a different source of income – the villagers extracted huge rounded boulders from the water course and sold them as park ornaments. We made a rest stop and suddenly there were birds everywhere. Groups of Grey-capped Greenfinches flew over whilst a group of Meadow Buntings inhabited cover below us. In the same patch were Striated Prinia and a Siberian Rubythroat, the latter only seen by Roger and John. There were Green Sandpipers, a Little Egret and many Brown- breasted Bulbuls. 1 © Greentours Limited. Visit www.greentours.co.uk for further details. Telephone 01298 83563 As soon as we turned on to the road to the mountains the scenery changed. Agricultural usage dwindled away and changed to small terraces on the increasingly steep slopes as we entered the forested hills. We passed a reservoir which supplied drinking water for Xi’an, and started to see more birdlife – Red-billed Blue Magpies were prominent. The road followed the side of the crystal clear, turquoise and green river which flowed down the valley, lined with round white boulders. The forested slopes got steeper still, most of the wooded hills with slopes approaching 75º or 80º in angle. A bright Senecio showered the cliffs with yellow flowers. Each bend of the road brought more breathtaking views. We stopped for a female Wallcreeper that posed for the 'scope and saw Plumbeous Redstarts along the river. Brown Dipper and Crested Kingfisher too. For the past couple of years the park rangers have been habituating Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys by providing them with a regular food source. The monkeys come to this spot, within their home ranges and enjoy the largesse provided and as a consequence now allow people close-up views of them. In many ways it was a rather bizarre experience, there was the extraordinary Gaudi-esque ranger station, the electric car to wheel us uphill a kilometre, and then a ten minute walk to a spot where the monkey’s hangout, and boy, do they hang out! There were at least three family groups, each with a dominant male who was large glossy gold with a dark back, blue face and prominent white testicles. There were around thirty other animals spread between the families, with many palest beige youngsters, and all ages in between. We watched and photographed them swinging through the trees as the guy with the feed moved through. Alpha males argued about possession of the big rock. Indeed Roger was warned off said rock! They are really stunningly beautiful animals, the fur of the females and subadult males a glorious golden-orange, the faces of all the adults blue with a hint of lilac. The monkeys paid no heed to us and we were able to approach some to within a metre. The place was in a nice natural situation (though the trees they were spending most time on were dying) with a glorious multicoloured autumnal mountain forest backdrop. There were some nice birds too, a party of Sooty Tits, fantastic Golden-breasted Fulvettas and a group of chattering Dusky (probably!) Fulvettas. After lunch, an introduction to the self-heating rice meal – a fascinating concept – we drove a few kilometres back up through the most sublime scenery to the entrance to Foping itself. Here Mr Ho Lu lifted the barrier and we headed into the park proper – only a limited number of passes are given to access the reserve. On reaching the end of the tarmaced road, our bags were loaded onto four horses and we set off on the 8km walk to the Research Station. We had little time for stopping en route as we needed to get to the research station by dusk, however there were a few birds to be seen, notably Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler, lots of Red-billed Leiothrix, a Little Bunting and Rufous-capped Babbler. We saw signs of Takin on several occasions including a wallow, but no animals. The scenery just kept getting more and more beautiful, pristine mixed woodland and bamboo, sunlight glinting off autumnal red Acer leaves and a sparkling river, moss covered boulders... A word about the track. It is well made, concrete all the way, either steps or reasonably level. A lot of steps in the first kilometre, downhill on the way in. The worst in fifty year floods experienced this summer had done plenty of damage but it only affected a few short sections where new paths had been forged. And the last gorge section where bridges had been washed out so we had to go round the half km longer horse track which took us through fine countryside. 2 © Greentours Limited. Visit www.greentours.co.uk for further details. Telephone 01298 83563 Finally we stopped photographing the scenery and arrived at the Research Station. Just a fantastic location, with its own hydro electric supply, and this year the rather nice rooms had both gas heating and gas heated showers. It felt like luxury to me, who had experienced the rooms here the previous year with no heating! We settled into our rooms but at various times were interrupted by Red-billed Blue Magpies, a pair of Daurian Redstarts and a bunting that we couldn't quite fathom. Dinner was taken at six and featured just three main dishes, but very tasty they were – a bit spicy for some though with the mix of chili and sichuan pepper. th Day 4 October 28 Foping It was a beautiful bright clear morning though a mite chilly early on. Rising I was under the initial impression that I'd missed breakfast and that everyone was waiting for me, but thankfully the 09.08 it said on the clock was the result of a night-time pressing of the wrong buttons. We explored the environs of Sanguanmiao Station, looking at the area out back by Mr Zhang's small farm and also a little down towards the village. Strikingly obvious in the lovely clear light were Red-billed Blue Magpies and Nutcrackers, both noisy, common and striking birds. Red-flanked Bluetails were common everywhere this morning. There was a brief sighting of a Grey-headed Woodpecker but many of the local race of Nuthatch, these a particularly richly coloured variant. Daurian Redstarts were also frequent with some colourful males seen. Ron came up with an interesting find, for down by the bridge was a dead shrew- like creature with velvety mole-like fur and a bare expanded nose. More on that later. Breakfast was our first taste of how they really do them round here, as opposed to the magnificent multicultural spread at the Grand New World. A thin rice gruel and steamed rice dumplings provided the carbohydrate and were undenyingly plain without the addition of either the jam or the series of stir-fried dishes that appeared. One of these was an excellent smoked tofu and bean dish, though one or two found the chili/sichuan pepper content a little high. There was tea and coffee as well. Once fed and having wrestled with what we needed for the day – always hardest on the first day out here – we were ready for the off. By now it was really warming up so we set off in high spirits, not a cloud in the sky. We walked quickly the kilometre to the first staging area. These are where we wait for news from the trackers who are beavering about the surrounding slopes trying to locate pandas. This means that waits can vary, from minutes to a couple of hours. This first one was about an hour. We enjoyed it greatly as it was a small open area where some medicinal crops were grown and so we could enjoy the sun and the butterflies it brought out. First was a clouded yellow species, soon followed by a much more obliging comma, this one Polygonia c-aureum.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Cryptic Phylogeographic History Sheds Light on the Generation of Species Diversity in Sky-Island Mountains
    bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/199786; this version posted October 7, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Cryptic phylogeographic history sheds light on the generation of species diversity in sky-island mountains Kai He1, 2, 3, #, Tao Wan 1, 4, Klaus-Peter Koepfli 5, 6, Wei Jin7, Shao-Ying Liu7, Xue-Long Jiang1, # 1 State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China 2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MN R3T R3V, Canada 3 The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. 4 Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China 5 Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, DC 20008, USA 6 Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, RUSSIA 7 Sichuan Academy of Forest, Chengdu 610081, Sichuan, China Keywords: allopatry, Approximate Bayesian Computation, cryptic corridor, interglacial refugia, niche modeling, species delimitation Running title: Cryptic sky-island phylogeography # Correspondence: Kai He and Xue-Long Jiang, Fax: 86 871 6512 5226; E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/199786; this version posted October 7, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
    [Show full text]
  • Interglacial Refugia Preserved High Genetic Diversity of the Chinese Mole Shrew in the Mountains of Southwest China
    Heredity (2016) 116, 23–32 & 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved 0018-067X/16 www.nature.com/hdy ORIGINAL ARTICLE Interglacial refugia preserved high genetic diversity of the Chinese mole shrew in the mountains of southwest China KHe1,2, N-Q Hu1,3, X Chen4,5, J-T Li6 and X-L Jiang1 The mountains of southwest China (MSC) harbor extremely high species diversity; however, the mechanism behind this diversity is unknown. We investigated to what degree the topography and climate change shaped the genetic diversity and diversification in these mountains, and we also sought to identify the locations of microrefugia areas in these mountains. For these purposes, we sampled extensively to estimate the intraspecific phylogenetic pattern of the Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes)in southwest China throughout its range of distribution. Two mitochondrial genes, namely, cytochrome b (CYT B) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 (ND2), from 383 archived specimens from 43 localities were determined for phylogeographic and demographic analyses. We used the continuous-diffusion phylogeographic model, extensive Bayesian skyline plot species distribution modeling (SDM) and approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to explore the changes in population size and distribution through time of the species. Two phylogenetic clades were identified, and significantly higher genetic diversity was preserved in the southern subregion of the mountains. The results of the SDM, continuous-diffusion phylogeographic model, extensive Bayesian skyline plot and ABC analyses were congruent and supported that the Last Interglacial Maximum (LIG) was an unfavorable period for the mole shrews because of a high degree of seasonality; A. squamipes survived in isolated interglacial refugia mainly located in the southern subregion during the LIG and rapidly expanded during the last glacial period.
    [Show full text]
  • Molecular Phylogeny of Mobatviruses (Hantaviridae) in Myanmar and Vietnam
    viruses Article Molecular Phylogeny of Mobatviruses (Hantaviridae) in Myanmar and Vietnam Satoru Arai 1, Fuka Kikuchi 1,2, Saw Bawm 3 , Nguyễn Trường Sơn 4,5, Kyaw San Lin 6, Vương Tân Tú 4,5, Keita Aoki 1,7, Kimiyuki Tsuchiya 8, Keiko Tanaka-Taya 1, Shigeru Morikawa 9, Kazunori Oishi 1 and Richard Yanagihara 10,* 1 Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; [email protected] (S.A.); [email protected] (F.K.); [email protected] (K.A.); [email protected] (K.T.-T.); [email protected] (K.O.) 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan 3 Department of Pharmacology and Parasitology, University of Veterinary Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 15013, Myanmar; [email protected] 4 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam; [email protected] (N.T.S.); [email protected] (V.T.T.) 5 Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam 6 Department of Aquaculture and Aquatic Disease, University of Veterinary Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 15013, Myanmar; [email protected] 7 Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan 8 Laboratory of Bioresources, Applied Biology Co., Ltd., Tokyo 107-0062, Japan; [email protected] 9 Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; [email protected] 10 Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A.
    [Show full text]
  • When Beremendiin Shrews Disappeared in East Asia, Or How We Can Estimate Fossil Redeposition
    Historical Biology An International Journal of Paleobiology ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ghbi20 When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition Leonid L. Voyta , Valeriya E. Omelko , Mikhail P. Tiunov & Maria A. Vinokurova To cite this article: Leonid L. Voyta , Valeriya E. Omelko , Mikhail P. Tiunov & Maria A. Vinokurova (2020): When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354 Published online: 22 Sep 2020. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ghbi20 HISTORICAL BIOLOGY https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354 ARTICLE When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition Leonid L. Voyta a, Valeriya E. Omelko b, Mikhail P. Tiunovb and Maria A. Vinokurova b aLaboratory of Theriology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia; bFederal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY The current paper first time describes a small Beremendia from the late Pleistocene deposits in the Received 24 July 2020 Koridornaya Cave locality (Russian Far East), which associated with the extinct Beremendia minor. The Accepted 8 September 2020 paper is the first attempt to use a comparative analytical method to evaluate a possible case of redeposition KEYWORDS of fossil remains of this shrew.
    [Show full text]
  • DNA Metabarcoding Provides Insights Into Seasonal Diet Variations in Chinese Mole Shrew (Anourosorex Squamipes) with Potential I
    DNA metabarcoding provides insights into seasonal diet variations in Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes) with potential implications for evaluating crop impacts Keyi Tang1, Fei Xie1, Hongyi Liu2, Dan Chen1, Boxin Qin1, Changkun Fu1, Qiong Wang1, and Shunde Chen1 1Sichuan Normal University 2Nanjing Forestry University July 20, 2020 Abstract Diet analysis of potential small mammals pest species is important for understanding feeding ecology and evaluating their impact on crops and stored foods. Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes), distributed in Southwest China, has previously been reported as a farmland pest. Effective population management of this species requires a better understanding of its diet, which can be difficult to determine with high taxonomic resolution using conventional microhistological methods. In this study, we used two DNA metabarcoding assays to identify 38 animal species and 65 plant genera from shrew stomach contents, which suggest that A. squamipes is an omnivorous generalist. Earthworms are the most prevalent (>90%) and abundant (>80%) food items in the diverse diet of A. squamipes. Species of the Fabaceae (frequency of occurrence [FO]: 88%; such as peanuts) and Poaceae (FO: 71%; such as rice) families were the most common plant foods identified in the diet of A. squamipes. Additionally, we found a seasonal decrease in the diversity and abundance of invertebrate foods from spring and summer to winter. Chinese mole shrew has a diverse and flexible diet throughout the year to adapt to seasonal variations in food availability, contributing to its survival even when food resources are limited. This study provides a higher resolution identification of the diet of A. squamipes than has been previously described and is valuable for understanding shrew feeding ecology as well as evaluating possible species impacts on crops.
    [Show full text]
  • Urotrichus Talpoides)
    Molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus in the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides) Satoru Arai*, Satoshi D. Ohdachi†, Mitsuhiko Asakawa‡, Hae Ji Kang§, Gabor Mocz¶, Jiro Arikawaʈ, Nobuhiko Okabe*, and Richard Yanagihara§** *Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; †Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan; ‡School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu 069-8501, Japan; §John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813; ¶Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822; and ʈInstitute for Animal Experimentation, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan Communicated by Ralph M. Garruto, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, September 10, 2008 (received for review August 8, 2008) Recent molecular evidence of genetically distinct hantaviruses in primers based on the TPMV genome, we have targeted the shrews, captured in widely separated geographical regions, cor- discovery of hantaviruses in shrew species from widely separated roborates decades-old reports of hantavirus antigens in shrew geographical regions, including the Chinese mole shrew (Anouro- tissues. Apart from challenging the conventional view that rodents sorex squamipes) from Vietnam (21), Eurasian common shrew are the principal reservoir hosts, the recently identified soricid- (Sorex araneus) from Switzerland (22), northern short-tailed shrew borne hantaviruses raise the possibility that other soricomorphs, (Blarina brevicauda), masked shrew (Sorex cinereus), and dusky notably talpids, similarly harbor hantaviruses. In analyzing RNA shrew (Sorex monticolus) from the United States (23, 24) and Ussuri extracts from lung tissues of the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus white-toothed shrew (Crocidura lasiura) from Korea (J.-W.
    [Show full text]
  • Natural Animal Food Preference of Chinese Mole Shrew (Anourosorex Squamipes ) from an Urban Area: a Laboratory Study
    Turkish Journal of Zoology Turk J Zool (2021) 45: 65-69 http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/ © TÜBİTAK Short Communication doi:10.3906/zoo-2009-28 Natural animal food preference of Chinese mole shrew (Anourosorex squamipes) from an urban area: a laboratory study 1 1, 1,2 Yun-Chun YE , Yi LUO *, Zhao-Min ZHOU 1 Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China 2 Key Laboratory of Environmental Science and Biodiversity Conservation (Sichuan Province), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China Received: 20.09.2020 Accepted/Published Online: 10.12.2020 Final Version: 18.01.2021 Abstract: Most wild animals are urban avoiders, but some others become adapters or exploiters successfully living in urban areas. Often, the latter is assumed to be attracted into cities by readily accessible and digestive anthropogenic food resources. Here, we quantified food preferences of sixteen (eight females and eight males) Chinese mole shrews (Anourosorex squamipes) captured from an urban area for “cafeteria tests” in laboratory. Shrews were presented with twelve foods allocated into three sets (natural animal, natural plant, and anthropogenic food). Once the most two highly consumed food items from each set were determined, six items were pooled together to form a mixed food. We found that these urban shrews tended to prefer raw pork, peanut, and cooked pork over others when offered three single food sets, respectively, whereas natural animal food was more preferred over the rest when the set of mixed food was offered. The results show that urban shrews acquired nutrition by consuming the significant preferred diets.
    [Show full text]
  • Myoglobin Primary Structure Reveals Multiple Convergent Transitions To
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Myoglobin primary structure reveals multiple convergent transitions to semi- aquatic life in the world’s smallest mammalian divers Kai He1,2,3,4*, Triston G Eastman1, Hannah Czolacz5, Shuhao Li1, Akio Shinohara6, Shin-ichiro Kawada7, Mark S Springer8, Michael Berenbrink5*, Kevin L Campbell1* 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; 3State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China; 4Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Single Cell Technology and Application, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; 5Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 6Department of Bio-resources, Division of Biotechnology, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan; 7Department of Zoology, Division of Vertebrates, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan; 8Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, United States *For correspondence: Abstract The speciose mammalian order Eulipotyphla (moles, shrews, hedgehogs, solenodons) [email protected] (KH); combines an unusual diversity of semi-aquatic, semi-fossorial, and fossorial forms that arose from [email protected]. terrestrial forbearers. However, our understanding of
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Checklist of Indian Mammals FINAL.Pmd
    CHECKLIST OF INDIAN MAMMALS REVISED AND UPDATED 2008 417 species in 48 families Taxonomy and nomenclature as per Wilson & Reeder (2005) I. ORDER: PROBOSCIDEA 1) Family: Elephantidae (Elephants) 1. Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 Asian Elephant - I, SR, N, BH, BA, M, SE II. ORDER: SIRENIA 2) Family: Dugongidae (Dugong) 2. Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Dugong - I, PK(?), SR, M, BA, SE, P, ET, AU - Tropical coastal waters of Indian and W Pacific Ocean III. ORDER: SCANDENTIA 3) Family: Tupaiidae (Treeshrews) 3. Anathana ellioti (Waterhouse, 1850) Madras Treeshrew - I (EN) 4. Tupaia belangeri (Wagner, 1841) Northern Treeshrew - I, N, M, BA, SE, P 5. Tupaia nicobarica (Zelebor, 1869) Nicobar Treeshrew- I (EN) IV. ORDER: PRIMATES SUBORDER: STREPSIRRHINI 4) Family: Lorisidae (Lorises) 6. Loris lydekkerianus Cabrera, 1908 Gray Slender Loris - I, SR 7. Nycticebus bengalensis (Lacépède, 1800) Bengal Slow Loris - I, M, BA, SE, P SUBORDER: HAPLORRHINI 5) Family: Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys) Subfamily: Cercopithecinae (Macaques) 8. Macaca arctoides (I. Geoffroy, 1831) Stump-tailed Macaque - I, SE, P 9. Macaca assamensis Mc Clelland, 1840 Assam Macaque - I, N, SE, P 10. Macaca fascicularis (Raffles, 1821) Crab-eating Macaque - I, M, SE 11. Macaca leonina (Blyth, 1863) Northern Pig-tailed Macaque - I, M, BA, SE, P 12. Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann, 1780) Rhesus Macaque - I, AF, PK, SE, P 13. Macaca munzala Sinha, Datta, Madhusudan and Mishra, 2005 Arunachal Macaque - I (EN) 14. Macaca radiata (É. Geoffroy, 1812) Bonnet Macaque - I (EN) 15. Macaca silenus (Linnaeus, 1758) Lion-tailed Macaque - I (EN) Subfamily: Colobinae (Langurs and Leaf-monkeys) 16. Semnopithecus ajax (Pocock, 1928) Kashmir Gray Langur - I, PK 17.
    [Show full text]
  • From Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, Northeast Vietnam
    Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, 47(1), pp. 43–53, February 22, 2021 DOI: 10.50826/bnmnszool.47.1_43 Shrews (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, northeast Vietnam Hiroaki Saito1, Bui Tuan Hai2,4, Ly Ngoc Tu3, Nguyen Truong Son3,4, Shin-ichiro Kawada5 and Masaharu Motokawa6,* 1Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606–8502, Japan 2Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam 3Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam 4Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam 5Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4–1–1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–0005, Japan 6The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606–8501, Japan *E-mail: motokawa.masaharu.6 [email protected] (Received 2 December 2020; accepted 23 December 2020) Abstract We collected soricid shrews of the order Eulipotyphla from March 15 to 27, 2017 on Mt. Tay Con Linh, Ha Giang Province, northeast Vietnam, to investigate species composition and changes over the past 16 years. A total of 35 individuals of the family Soricidae, comprising five genera and the following seven species, were obtained: Anourosorex squamipes, Blarinella qua- draticauda, Chimarrogale himalayica, Chodsigoa caovansunga, Chodsigoa hoffmanni, Crocidura dracula, and Crocidura wuchihensis. These are the first records of Anourosorex squamipes and Chimarrogale himalayica in Ha Giang Province.
    [Show full text]
  • Molecular Phylogenetic and Phylogeography of Soriculus
    Molecular phylogenetic and phylogeography of Soriculus nigrescens in southwest China Haijun Jiang1, Changkun Fu1, Keyi Tang1, Fengjun Li2, Fei Xie1, Boxin Qin1, Dan Chen1, Shunde Chen1, and Shaoying Liu3 1Sichuan Normal University 2Sichuan University 3Sichuan Academy of Forestry March 2, 2021 Abstract The Himalayan Shrew belongs to the genus Soriculus, which is a monotypic genus. We investigated the phylogeographic patterns, speciation, divergence time, and demographic history of Soriculus nigrescens in southwestern China. A total of 128 samples from 29 regions were analyzed for both mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Phylogenetic analyses of the concatenated mtDNA and nuDNA data revealed three highly divergent lineages within the S. nigrescens. One group represented subspecies S. n. minors, another group represented subspecies S. n. nigrescens, which is made up of two Clades A and B. The species delimitation analyses, based on two methods, supported the species status of the two Clades of S. n. nigrescens. In addtion, it was found that individuals at different altitudes in Motuo were divided into two Clades. Bayesian skyline plotting analyses and ecological niche modeling also supported demographic and range expansions during the LGM for S. n. nigrescens. We propose that S. n. nigrescens appears to be composed of two putative species, and S. n. minor should be elevated to species status. Our study also suggested that climate change since the Miocene periods and the uplift of the QTP may have resulted in the diversification and speciation of S. nigrescens. Molecular phylogenetic and phylogeography of Soriculus nigrescens in southwest China Jiang haijun1#, Fu changkun1#, Tang keyi1, Li fengjun2, Xie fei1, Qin boxin1, Chen dan1, Chen shunde1*, Liu shaoying3* 1College of Life Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China.
    [Show full text]
  • Genetic Diversity of Imjin Virus in the Ussuri White-Toothed Shrew
    Gu et al. Virology Journal 2011, 8:56 http://www.virologyj.com/content/8/1/56 SHORTREPORT Open Access Genetic diversity of Imjin virus in the Ussuri white-toothed shrew (Crocidura lasiura) in the Republic of Korea, 2004-2010 Se Hun Gu1, Hae Ji Kang1,2, Luck Ju Baek1, Ji Yun Noh1, Heung-Chul Kim3, Terry A Klein3, Richard Yanagihara2, Jin-Won Song1* Abstract Recently, Imjin virus (MJNV), a genetically distinct hantavirus, was isolated from lung tissues of the Ussuri white- toothed shrew (Crocidura lasiura) captured near the demilitarized zone in the Republic of Korea. To clarify the genetic diversity of MJNV, partial M- and L-segment sequences were amplified from lung tissues of 12 of 37 (32.4%) anti-MJNV IgG antibody-positive Ussuri white-toothed shrews captured between 2004 and 2010. A 531-nucleotide region of the M segment (coordinates 2,255 to 2,785) revealed that the 12 MJNV strains differed by 0-12.2% and 0-2.3% at the nucleotide and amino acid levels, respectively. A similar degree of nucleotide (0.2-11.9%) and amino acid (0-3.8%) difference was found in a 632-nucleotide length of the L segment (coordinates 962 to 1,593) of nine MJNV strains. Phylogenetic analyses, based on the partial M and L segments of MJNV strains generated by the neighbor-joining and maximum likelihood methods, showed geographic-specific clustering, akin to the phylogeography of rodent-borne hantaviruses. Findings striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) populations near Genetically distinct hantaviruses have been discovered the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Korea, provided an recently in several species of shrews (Order Soricomor- opportunity to investigate the genetic diversity and phylo- pha, Family Soricidae) across four continents, including geography of MJNV in the crocidurine shrew species theEurasiancommonshrew(Sorex araneus)[1], reservoir.
    [Show full text]