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… We were all very happy that we had caught a female. Too bad this joy turned into misery after just two days when we didn’t get any fixes …
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The Sixth 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… Yeeeeeaaaaahhhiiii!! A female. We have a female. And it is a very pretty female too. We fitted her with a collar very close to Camp, and since it …
GPS Study Goals Met
With the exciting news that a female snow leopard is “on the air” in Mongolia, we have reached a major milestone. Our team had a total of six collars on hand, and they used them all. What we are learning is already quite amazing. We found that the home ranges of Aztai and Bayartai overlapped extensively. Instead …
Orjan finally found a girl!
Orjan has just placed GPS collars on two more snow leopards: Saikhan (fifth cat to be collared) and, this morning, a female snow leopard (sixth cat to be collared, as yet no nickname). You can read Orjan’s account of Saikhan HERE, but the female snow leopard is so new, we still have very little information. Here …
Fifth Cat Collared: Saikhan
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… We placed a GPS tracking collar on a fifth snow leopard. It is a male, what else to expect. We might have hit jackpot though, he weighs 33.8 …
Fourth Snow Leopard: Shonkhor
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 am doing something wrong. We placed a collar on our fourth snow leopard a couple of days ago. It is a … male. Surprise eh? Don’t know …
More News about (4th) Snow Leopard
The Snow Leoaprd Trust is annoucing the collaring of a 4th snow leopard in Mongolia. To read Orjan’s post about the event, click here. Our team just placed a GPS radio collar on a 4th snow leopard. This is a cat we have never seen before on our remote cameras, bringing the number of snow leopards using …
The nomad life.
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… Today we moved and built the new camp. I checked our cameras again and there were no snow leopard pictures on them, so in two weeks we have …
Ibex and Sandstorms
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… Emma left today. This must be the emptiest day in the Gobi for me. We have built ten traps, put out a few cameras, checked some kill sites …
Oyuna Crazy fires
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… If you come to Mongolia you will notice that no matter how cold it is outside it will be very, very warm inside the gers. And warmest of …