Wondering which zoos near you have snow leopards? Traveling and want to visit multiple snow leopards during your trip? The Snow Leopard Trust is working on a grand map that will be able to show you all the zoos in the world that have snow leopards. Our trusted intern James is putting in the long …
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Just how cool are these cameras
Here are some facts for you about the trap cameras we are using: they take pictures every 1/2 second they have a four-month battery life (supposedly, have not run out yet) their flash cards each have a 15,ooo picture capacity In addition, the GPS radio collars are really great too. We are receiving about 60% …
New videos up!
Just a note that if you go to our Flickr page, there are four new snow leopard videos. Yes, they are homemade by taking tons of trap camera photos and pieceing them together like a flip book. So, they are a little rough, but fun. There is on called “following the peeper,” and we have …
Snow Leopard Camp Update
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Our first volunteer, Ashley Spearing arrived to Dalandzadgad when Kim and Namshur took off and he has kept me busy. Ashley is a British guy who has …
Ashley Sights His First Snow Leopard
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… First of all, perfume works great as attractant [the team is trying to catch a female snow leopard since so far they only have collared males]. Downside …
Second Snow Leopard Collared!
In the early morning of September 14, the members of the base camp research team heard the alert as one of their traps had been triggered… 7:55 am, 14th of September 2008, we did radio-collar the snow leopard formerly known as Longtail. You could almost touch the tension in the car as we were …
Don’t kill the cook
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… At about noon, Kim and Namshur all left the camp. Mije is driving and Oyuna came along. She has been complaining about a bad tooth ache for …
Trap Camera Photos and More
For those of you who are interested in seeing more trap camera photos of snow leopards, check out our Flickr page. You can also see pictures of our base camp, and our “Photo of the Month” series.
Build it and the Snow Leopards Will Come–Maybe
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… I was wrong about catching a cat on the 2nd of September, too bad, we almost caught one though. A week ago a trap camera photographed a …
Thoughts and reflections about life in Mongolia
Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who bought a one-way ticket to Mongolia to work at the base camp of our long-term research project. These are his adventures… Its warm again. Which is nice, and what makes it even nicer is that it’s not super-hot. Neither the car nor the cook has arrived yet. Kim …