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Ochotona cansus (Gansu Pika)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Gansu pika (Ochotona cansus) is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is endemic to China.
View Wikipedia Record: Ochotona cansus

Infraspecies

Ochotona cansus cansus
Ochotona cansus morosa
Ochotona cansus sorella
Ochotona cansus stevensi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.01
EDGE Score: 2.77
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  69 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 1 month
Gestation [1]  24 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  5 inches (13 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Bubo bubo hemachalanus[3]
Buteo hemilasius (Upland Buzzard)[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3SUMMER DIET OF TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF RAPTORS UPLAND BUZZARD (BUTEO HEMILASIUS) AND EURASIAN EAGLE OWL (BUBO BUBO) IN ALPINE MEADOW: PROBLEM OF COEXISTENCE, Qinghu CUI, Jianping SU, Zhigang JIANG, POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Vol 56, 1 pp. 173–179 (2008)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0