Jay Storz, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Nebraska.

内布拉斯加大学的进化生物学家杰伊·斯托兹说到。

Storz says the summit sighting was fortuitous.

斯托兹表示，在山顶上看见老鼠是偶然的。

The climbers reached out to Storz because he studies how animals adapt to high altitudes.

登山者联系了斯托兹，因为他研究动物如何适应高海拔。

Storz and his colleagues spent a month at Llullaillaco earlier this year, where they confirmed what the climbers saw.

今年早些时候，斯托兹及其同事在尤耶亚科山火山待了一个月，他们证实了登山者所看到的情况。

Storz collected that mouse and others as museum specimens that will enable future scientific analysis.

斯托兹收集了这只老鼠和其他老鼠作为博物馆标本，以便将来进行科学分析。

Whatever the answer, Storz suspects there may be more high-altitude animals out there than scientists thought.

无论答案是什么，斯托兹都怀疑那里可能存在比科学家想象的更多的高海拔动物。

It took Storz a minute to gather his wits, but he eventually managed to catch the mouse with his hands.

斯托兹费了一分钟才恢复意识，但最终还是成功用手抓住了老鼠。

Storz also wants to know how mice are finding food on top of a barren, rocky volcano, thousands of feet above the highest green plants.

斯托兹还想知道老鼠如何在一座贫瘠的岩石火山顶寻找食物，其山顶比最高的绿色植物高出数千英尺。