Diet Overlap

Phodopus roborovskii (desert hamster)
Testudo horsfieldii (Horsfield’s Tortoise)

Common Diet

Alyssum turkestanicum

Common Habitat

Mountains of Central Asia
Taklimakan desert
Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Phodopus roborovskii, Patricia D. Ross, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 459, pp. 1-4 (1994)
♦ 2Foraging behaviour and diet of an ectothermic herbivore: Testudo horsfieldi, Frédéric Lagarde, Xavier Bonnet, Johanna Corbin, Brian Henen, Ken Nagy, Baktjior Mardonov and Guy Naulleau, ECOGRAPHY 26: 236–242, 2003