A lot.
In fact, we’re hoping to collect 200 snow leopard scat samples over summer. Kim, our Assistant Director of Science, is in Mongolia now collecting scat, and supervising numerous other projects. Kims says they swapped out Azati’s collar, and that his old one is pretty beat up.
“The rest of our field work is also going really well, despite some problems with our van. It has been really hot (high 80s) for most of the past week and we’ve been working long days walking transects and putting out our cameras. We’ve got 30 cameras out so far – 11 more to go. My goal is to have them all out before I leave for Ulaanbaatar next week. As of this morning we’ve collected 81 scat samples so we’re well on our way towards fulfilling our poop quota of 200 samples for the summer.”