This January, we saw some incredible movements from the snow leopards in our long-term ecological study.
Aztai spent the first half of the month in the southeastern region of his home range, but later circled the entire area three times! Khavar toured his home range throughout the month as well, and was seen making two separate trips to visit our base camp.
Khashaa is still travelling with her cubs, including M9 who is also wearing a GPS collar, and has covered her entire home range and six cluster sites since late December. Anu travelled extensively in January, visiting six different locations and spending a few days at each. Her travels were very close to those of Lasya, although the never actually overlapped at the same time.
In other news from the field, congratulations to our ungulate expert Kullu for completing his field work! 2We’re excited to share his results with you soon!
Above Photo of Aztai Courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust and Panthera.
I have loved these animals since the first time I saw a documentary on the BBC site. I gave Christmas gifts from the Snow Leopard Trust to family this year and they loved them.
Thanks for the update, it’s interesting to follow the snow leopards. Just thought it would be nice to see the GPS positions online…? Or perhaps better not, don’t want too many people running around and disturbing ’em either… I’d be happy to have comments from you on my recent blog post, how to find snow leopards:
http://www.welovehimalaya.com/how-to-find-a-snow-leopard/