The Mishmi form is a plant-eating hoofed mammal of the eastern Himalayas and nearby mountains.
Young Mishmi takins have a white band on the head where the horns will later grow.
In Foping National Nature Reserve, China, researchers fitted GPS collars to ten adult takins and followed them from July 2014 through June 2015. Location records showed two daily movement peaks around sunrise and sunset, with stronger movement at dusk. Movement rates were lowest in winter, so activity changed across the year rather than staying constant.
Movement also differed by sex, season and time of day: females moved faster during spring daytime, while males moved faster at night in spring and overall in summer. Rates correlated with local temperature and NDVI, a satellite measure of vegetation greenness. These links do not prove causes. The sample covers ten adults at one reserve for one year, not a population trend.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Tracking ten adults for one year in Foping provides a local record of seasonal movement and correlations with temperature and vegetation greenness. It can inform longer and broader monitoring of forest and meadow habitat, but does not establish a population trend or current formal species-level conservation category or assessment date.