2. Biological Data

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• Language: English
• Subjects: eO; Ursus arctos
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China: Found mostly on the plateau areas (4,500—5,000 m) of Quighai and Xizang (Tibet) Provinces with a distribution from Qinghai and Gansu South to Western Sichuan and Xizang (Tibet) (Ma, 1983). A survey in th Xizang Province appears to have extended the known range of U. a. pruinosus. Specimens were found less than 1,000 km from the Nepalese border although no confirmed records are known for this country (Seng Feng et al.,l986). Mongolia: Mountains of the Transaltai Gobi, principally in the 1T~gaan Bogd, Hatan—Hairhan, Tost and Pemget mountain massifs, from Tost and Nemegetu Uul in the East to Aj Bodg in the 1~Jest. (Tsevagmid and Dashdorj, 1974). There is one record of a specimen of Ursus arctos shot in Bhutan in 1945 (Gee, 1967) however, it appears that the specimen was not retained and the existence of the species there needs confirmation. 22. Population: Little known in China but a survey of the Xizang area located 5 records of U. a. pruinosus (Seng Feng et al., 1986). Only 15—20 quoted as remaining in Mongolia in 1973 (Mallon, 1985). Traces of the animals were found at three different localities in Mongolia during the period 1974—1976 (Dash at al.