a study was conducted to determine habitat suitability of goitred gazelle (gazella subgutturosa) in kalmand-bahadoran protected area during four seasons of year 2003-2004.the geographic position of dispersal points of gazelle herds was recorded with global position system. the data were transmitted into attributed tables in arc view software and their layers were created. the maps of slope, alt...

In September 2007 unusual precipitation patterns created conditions in the eastern steppe of Mongolia (drought conditions in many places and wet conditions in one area) that led to the observation of a historically large Mongolian gazelle Procapra gutturosa herd (. 200,000). A model developed to predict gazelle occurrence based on satellite imagery of vegetation productivity correctly identifie...

The growing popularity of cloud-based machine learning raises a natural question about the privacy guarantees that can be provided in such a setting. Our work tackles this problem in the context where a client wishes to classify private images using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained by a server. Our goal is to build efficient protocols whereby the client can acquire the classificatio...

Tibetan gazelle Procapra picticaudata is a threatened and endemic species to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. With the method of group scan sampling, we observed the behaviours of males and females of the gazelle in the two summers of 2005 and 2006, in order to test the group size effect on group vigilance. We found that male gazelles were significantly more vigilant than the females at both group sc...

and rolling slopes interspersed with lake basins. The vegetation includes open alpine steppe communities with c. 15% vegetation cover. Vegetation is usually dominated by grass, and biomass rarely exceeds 15 g m−2 (Schaller, 1998; data from adjoining sites in Tibet). The growth season is limited to June–September and temperature regularly falls to −30°C during the long winter. The gazelle was re...

Imagine an individual called “hunter” that expends a good deal of energy to capture a gazelle. As the hunter is consuming his small prey, a second individual called “recipient” approaches and begins feeding peacefully alongside the hunter. A few weeks later the roles reverse, such that the previous recipient has now captured a gazelle, and the previous hunter is taking advantage of the recipien...

Anthropogenic landscapes influence evolutionary processes such as population genetic differentiation, however, not every type of landscape features exert the same effect on a species, hence it is necessary to estimate their relative effect for species management and conservation. Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii), which inhabits a human-altered area on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is one of...

Habitat connectivity is indispensable for the survival of species that occupy a small habitat area and have isolated patches from each other. At present, development human economy squeezes living space wildlife interferes hinders dispersal species. The Przewalski’s gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) one most endangered ungulates, which has experienced significant reduction in population severe shri...