In the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, one of the region's highest risk areas for human plague, Himalayan marmots are the primary ... butchering, and eating under-cooked sheep meat. "To the best of our ...

Himalayan marmots can survive at altitudes up to 5,000 meters in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Pakistan and on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, where many of them face extreme ...

Himalayan marmots can survive at altitudes up to 5,000 meters in the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Pakistan and on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China, where many of them face extreme ...

After a Mongolian couple died from the plague last year, which they caught from ingesting raw marmot meat, a 15-year-old boy in western Mongolia has died of bubonic plague after eating an infected ...

This Himalayan marmot was not long out of hibernation when it was surprised by a mother Tibetan fox with three hungry cubs to feed. With lightning-fast reactions ...

Yongqing Bao won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award for his striking shot of a fox suprising a Himalayan marmot. It required staking out a meadow for hours. In a high grassland region ...

To film Himalayan marmots we traveled to the edge of the ... of time the young marmots must triple their body weight by eating only grass, readying themselves for an 8 month hibernation.

The prized image shows a female Tibetan fox, who was hunting for her three cubs, provoking a Himalayan marmot, according to the museum website. It was snapped by photographer Yongqing Bao in the ...

“The Moment” was rare yet relatable. In a picture captured by Chinese photographer Yongqing Bao, a female Tibetan fox and a Himalayan marmot meet. The fox, hunting to feed her three ...

Dumpling is a textbook example of a male Himalayan marmot, from the coloration down to his overall size. Dumpling seems to be well cared for and has grown to expect bathing with some regularity.

A 15-year-old Mongolian boy has died after eating a large rodent that was infected with the bubonic plague. The teen ate a marmot, a large rodent that lives in burrows in the North Asian grassland ...