We recently got an update from Koustubh, our Regional Field Biologist, about the latest trek that the wild cat Aztai made in Mongolia: Couldn’t resist the temptation of sharing this exciting episode of Mr. Aztai and his long walk. He seems to be fond of taking these long walks almost periodically, though the frequency is …
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A Snow Leopard Romance for Valentine's Day
With Tsagaan fitted with an improved GPS tracking collar this past September, we have learned a remarkable amount of information on his recent whereabouts. His home range overlaps with that of Khashaa, Tenger and Zara (the three females in our research study) and his GPS locations show him visiting all of them more than once …
Friday the Snow Leopard Mascot
By request, here is a photo of dear little Friday, the cat who has adopted our researchers as her own humans and now lives at the base came of our long-term snow leopard study in Mongolia. She had kittens this year and made sure they stayed warm by putting them in our sleeping bags.
Snow doesn't stop snow leopard research
Dear blog readers, thanks for a great year. Here is an end-of-the-year update about our long-term snow leopard study in the South Gobi, Mongolia. November marked one of the coldest months in South Gobi with mercury dipping to abysmal limits. Field work became increasingly difficult and our camp remained under thick cover of snow. Despite …
Protected Area for Snow Leopards is Approved!
As we reported last year, important snow leopard habitat in the Tost Mountains of southern Mongolia is covered with licenses for mining exploration. We and the members of the local communities were concerned about what further mining action could do to this land and its wildlife if the licenses were allowed to move into the …
The Main Ingredient in Swedish Meatballs
Photo courtesy of SLT/Panthera Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… Just before midnight the siren alerted us that an animal was in one of our safe leg-hold restraints (used so we can fit a collar on snow leopards) at the …
Possible Snow Leopard Romance
On September 18, 2010, our team caught up with Tsagaan, one of the large adult males we have been following for two years. Tsagaan was re-collared in March 2010. Unfortunately, his collar never switched on and we received no GPS locations from it during the last 8 months. Thankfully, this time around we were able …
Stunning Sharable Snow Leopard Photos
For your viewing pleasure, straight from our base camp in Mongolia. You might have seen some great photos of snow leopards in zoos, but these are wild cats! Amazing. The cat in the snow–that’s Aztai and we have been following him for 2 years.
Snow Leopard Vs. Camel?
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… It’s getting cold, right now it is about minus 20 degrees C, and I am sitting in a tent. Yet again I wonder why on Earth I work with snow leopards and …
A Wild Snow Leopard is Growing Up
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… As we came back to camp after a long day of searching snow leopard hunting sites (places where we know snow leopards have been eating) we had an alarm on our surveillance system. We …