Ljulyayljako - the highest acting volcano on our planet. It is located on the border of Chile and Argentina and rises as much as 6739 meters above sea level. Its peak covered with snow is at an extreme height,
Ljulyayljako - the highest acting volcano on our planet. It is located on the border of Chile and Argentina and rises as much as 6739 meters above sea level. Its peak covered with snow is at an extreme height, where the oxygen concentration is below the norm by as much as 45%, and the temperature sometimes drops to -60 degrees Celsius. It would be logical to assume that these places are uninhabited, but not - in 2013, climber Matt Farson noticed a small rodent there. Having learned about this, scientists became interested in what other animals can live in such harsh conditions and what they eat there, because there is no vegetation on the top of the volcano. A few years later, the answers to some of the questions of interest to scientists were finally found.
What climber Matt Farson spotted on tophuge rodent active volcano, biologist Jay Storz became interested. According to Nebraska Today, mammals cannot theoretically live at altitudes above 5 kilometers. And the rodent seen by the climber walked at an altitude of about 6.7 kilometers. To find out if rodents really can survive at extreme heights, the biologist climbed the Ljulyayljako volcano with mountaineer Mario Prez Mamani.
The most hardy animals
To everyone's surprise, on the way to the topa huge volcano, the researchers really met several species of rodents. For example, they met individuals of the so-called Andean gerbil (Eligmodontia puerulus), which usually live in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. Also, the biologist and climber were lucky to see the eared lima (Phyllotis limatus), which belongs to the genus of leaf-eared hamsters and is usually inhabited by savannas, shrubberies and deserts.
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