I thought this was interesting: Before they were able to fit Tsagaan with a GPS radio collar, our researchers spent about 20 days scouting this area, climbing up and down in the mountains to find the best sites. Then they deployed hidden cameras, checked them and collected them. Then they build traps, taking extra care to make sure the traps would not harm snow leopards in any way once deployed. Once set, they checked the traps visually every second day and listened to the transmitters at 18:00, 22:00, 01:30, 05:00, 08:00.
We recently has a collar mishap. Seems Tsagaan’s collar is not transmitting data. Dr. Tom McCarthy comments: “This is not great news, but it’s all in the game of these evolving technologies. Right now we don’t know if the GPS is working and the sat-phone has failed, or vise versa, or the whole collar has gone gunny sack.” Orjan will attemp to change out the collar, ife he can manage to meet up with Tsagaan again.
I’ve never even thought about commenting till now. I guess if I really like a post I find myself checking the external links for more and favoriting (if that is a word) the post instead. From now on though I’ll definitely try and drop a comment every so often.
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