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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

was recently sealed off following the deaths of a local couple who contracted the plague from eating the raw meat and organs of an infected marmot, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev with the World Health ...

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.

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.

The couple reportedly ate the raw marmot meat because it was believed to be good for health A Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot meat, causing a six-day ...

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 ...

A 15-year-old boy has died in western Mongolia of bubonic plague after eating an infected marmot, the country’s health ministry announced. Two other teenagers who also ate the marmot were being ...