You could call it one of the world's longest games of hide and seek.
这可能是史上耗时最长的捉迷藏了。
For more than 20 years, the Ili pika (Ochotona iliensis), a type of tiny, mountain-dwelling mammal with a teddy bear face, had eluded scientists in the Tianshan Mountains (map) of northwestern China.
伊利鼠兔,这种小小的,长着一张萌萌的泰迪熊脸的高山生哺乳动物已经从驻守在中国北部天山山脉的科学家的眼中消失了20多年了。
People have seen the furry critter only a handful of times since it was discovered by accident in 1983. In fact, people have spotted only 29 live individuals, and little is known about the animal's ecology and behavior.
自从1983年伊利鼠兔被意外发现之后,人们见到这种毛茸茸的小动物的次数简直屈指可数。实际上,人们只见到过29只伊利鼠兔,因此对于它们的生活习性和生活环境等知之甚少。
Then, in summer 2014, researchers rediscovered the pika.
但是,就这样毫无任何预兆的,在2014年的夏天伊利鼠兔再次出现了。
Weidong Li, the species' original discoverer and a scientist at the Xinjiang Institute for Ecology and Geography, had gathered a group of volunteers in the Tianshan Mountains for some pika searching. At noon one day, as they were setting up camera traps, the team spotted their prize.
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