User:Philcha/Sandbox/Euophrys omnisuperstes
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- "a minute black jumping spider, has been found at elevations as high as 6,700 metres (22,000 ft), possibly making it the highest confirmed non-microscopic permanent resident on Earth. It lurks in crevices and may feed on frozen insects that have been blown there by the wind. It should be noted that there is a high likelihood of microscopic life at even higher altitudes." - Wanless1975Ever Wanless, F.R. (1975). "Spiders of the family Salticidae from the upper slopes of Everest and Makalu". British Arachnological Society. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - " ... while others, such as the Chough, have been spotted as high as the South Col (7,920 m)[1] scavenging on food, or even corpses, left by prior climbing expeditions.
- Aitchison2001Nival: Aitchison, C.W. (2001). "Interverbrates: Nival and Aeolian Fauna". In H. Gérald Jones (ed.). Snow ecology: an interdisciplinary examination of snow-covered ecosystems. Cambridge University Press. p. 378. ISBN 9780521584838. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- p. 231-232: general
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- ^ The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt (Hodder & Stoughton, 1953). In chapter 14, Hunt describes seeing a Chough on the South Col; meanwhile Charles Evans saw some unidentified birds fly over the Col,