Found throughout Europe, these owlflies prefer sunny meadows at high elevation. They are diurnal predators that hunt small flying insects. Larvae resemble antlion larvae, but do not dig traps to catch prey.
This is the highly-endangered Ili Pika – a mysterious rabbit-like mammal only found in China. With less than 1,000 left they are now rarer than pandas.
The Ili Pika live in holes between bare rocks at an altitude of 2,800m (9, 186ft) to 4,000m. They are used to living on the extremely cold plateau and feeding on herbs found in the Tian Shan mountains.
In the past 30 years, their habitat has shrunk by 71%. This is partly because of climate change and partly because their grazing area has been taken over by a growing population of people at the bottom of the mountains.
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