photo by
B.S.Yudin
Tuva
Used to inhabite to all steppes of Tuva and Transbaikalia, but it is
practically dissapeared in result of contra-plague measures in Russia. In
Mongolia it inhabites the territories higher than 3800 meters above water
level (body length up to 57 cm, tale length - up to 10 cm).
Hunting in Mongolia:
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photo by E.I.Zholnerovskaya (2-4)
Tarbagan has a great significance in Mongolia. The hunter obtains a few
tens of animals a day. All hunter’s family participates in marmot’s «safari».
They moved to the marmot’s colony on a white car. One of the oldest sons
of the hunter in white cloth and white hare mask with long ears begins
to dance in the view of the marmots swinging with white yak’s tail in his
hand. Curiosity makes marmots do not go away in holes but look to the dance
loudly screaming. The hunter (also in white), thoroughly takes sight and
accurately shoots the mature animals one by one. Good hunter shoots in
the marmot’s eye, otherwise injured animal goes away in hole, and it would
be impossible to get it from. Women and children takes off marmot’s skins
(Fig. 2, prof. D.I.Bibikov talks with them) and dries them on the ground
(Fig. 3). They also collects marmot’s cure fat in the tuns. Figure 4 shows
the competition between mongolian hunters in rate of taking off the
skin.
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