Sichuan once again discovered the albino plateau rats and rabbits

Cover Journalist Gou Chun

On September 3rd, the cover reporter learned from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Sichuan Province that recently, when the Shiqu County Forestry and Grass Bureau carried out a harmful biological census in the typical grasslands of the high cold, foreign staff filmed in the town of Sexu Town. (Ochotona Curzoniae) (33.30124228 ° N 97.64539177 ° E, 4256 meters above sea level).

Belief plateau rats. Picture source Sichuan Forestry and Grassland Bureau

In animal groups with low frequency of albinization, the phenomenon of albinization can easily lead to confusion of species classification. The recording and clear image information of the albin color mutation phenomenon is of great significance to reveal the frequency of the phenomenon of the phenomenon in the plateau rats and the relevant classification system to avoid classification and confusion. This time, it was 28 years after the discovery of the albino individual recorded in Shiqu County for the first time in Shiqu County.

It is understood that the plateau rats, also known as black -lip mouse rabbits, are a small non -hibernation mammal in the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau in my country. Its body is round, the tail is short, and the body color is gray -brown, and the albumized individual of the plateau rats and rabbits is pure white, and the remaining characteristics are no different from normal individuals.

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