Some have owners, while some go wherever they want and don't have owners. Both the red fox and Tibetan fox are fox species that look similar, but the Tibetan fox has a very distinct broad and flattened skull shape that make it easy to identify.
My field team and I always get very excited when we see any wildlife! I'm particularly thrilled when it's a species that I have never seen before. The first time I saw a Eurasian lynx, I was speechless! We were driving for our fieldwork from one field site to the next around dusk, and casually adjacent to the dirt roadway we were on we saw three Eursian lynx walking in a straight line along the mountainside. I couldn't believe how lucky we had gotten! We quietly pulled over, rolled down our windows, and took pictures. We followed them with our cameras and binoculars for about 30 minutes before we lost sight of them as the strolled over the crest of the mountain.
The Tibetan Plateau has many different habitat types, which is why so many cool species can live within the same landscape. This is called niche partitioning. Niche partitioning is when species that all live together (sympatrically) use different resources so that they can all share the same area. Some species live high up in the mountains, making their homes in rocky outcrops and natural dens along steep cliff faces. Others prefer lower, flatter ground. Yak are usually free-roaming during the day to graze on the range, but are kept closer to human homes at night, often in a corral or fenced in area.
