The arid and barren northern Part of the Tibetan Plateau, with an average altitude of 4,500 meters above sea level, is full of life in this no-man's land, with many tenacious life, such as Tibetan antelope, Tibetan wild donkeys and wild yaks.
Tibetan antelope: an endemic animal of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the mainland and a national first-class protected animal. Because the male Tibetan antelope has a pair of beautiful black horns of about 60 cm, the shape is symmetrical, slender and slightly curved, and it is also called "longhorn sheep".
Tibetan antelopes are the best at running, and can gallop at high altitudes at 60 meters per hour. But its lifespan is the shortest among large mammals. Under normal circumstances, males live only 7 to 8 years, and females live up to 12 years. Therefore, although the Tibetan antelope population is large, it is also very fragile, and it is difficult to recover once the source is in danger.
The living habits of Tibetan antelopes are usually that males and females live separately in groups. Only in the cold winter, into the estrus period, they will come to a specific area, led by a male sheep to form a temporary family of several or even a dozen female sheep. When the pregnant female sheep are about to give birth, the female sheep leave the house in groups and move to a remote place to give birth.
Female sheep often choose a remote leeward place when feeding, and use their hind hooves to create a small pit to squat, and another female sheep is next to it as a guard. After a few minutes the lamb gives birth, and the ewe will slowly stand up and lick all over the lamb with pity. This is the most primitive and simple sanctity of life. After ten minutes, the lamb will be able to stand up and feed on a shaky basis.
After the birth, the mother sheep will take the newborn lambs and travel thousands of miles back to their hometowns. During this period, the male sheep stay in the perennial habitat in herds, living the life of a bachelor, and the task of giving birth and raising offspring is all undertaken by the female sheep.
Muzitag Peak is the highest peak in Xinjiang, with an altitude of about 7,000 meters, is an important Tibetan antelope production area, and about 10,000 to 15,000 Tibetan antelopes gather here every summer to produce cubs. Poachers also touch this pattern and often come here during the calfing season to wait for the Tibetan antelope. Artificial illegal gold mining and poaching have had a major impact on the habits of Tibetan antelopes. For example, in the early 1990s, when a female sheep gave birth to a child, she was not afraid of people, even if the car was just 10 meters away, it could turn a blind eye. But now as long as it sees people from a distance, it will escape a few hundred meters away.
In recent years, through the unremitting efforts of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and other departments, the management system and mechanism have been gradually improved, the management and protection strength, scientific research and monitoring, the intensity of protection according to law, environmental conditions, etc. have continued to improve, the protection of Tibetan antelope has achieved remarkable results, and the number of Tibetan antelope populations distributed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the mainland has recovered from more than 70,000 in the 1980s to more than 300,000. The Tibetan antelope have truly returned to being the masters of this green plateau.