Press Release – Seattle, WA, July 11, 2013 An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2-week-old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats. Finding a wild snow leopard cub in its den is rare …
Tag: Agnes
Research Camera Gems
Throughout the snow leopard range, Trust researchers like Rishi Sharma and Li Juan are tracking snow leopard populations with research cameras. They hike up steep slopes and scramble down rocky crevices to find the perfect spots to set up their cameras – and then they make the same trip again a few months later to …
Group Get-Together in the Gobi
Research and observation point towards snow leopards being solitary creatures. But in March, three of the cats we’re tracking with GPS collars seem to have staged a little get-together that lasted over three days! First, Ariun, one of the males in our study, and Agnes, a female cat, seem to have overlapped in a very …
Time Flies, Cats Grow Up
What a busy year it has been in our Long Term Ecological Study in Mongolia! Our field scientists managed to find wild cubs for the first time ever, collared and tracked various snow leopards across the South Gobi and watched cats they had first met as tiny cubs years ago grow up! Thanks to the …
Snow doesn't stop snow leopard research
Dear blog readers, thanks for a great year. Here is an end-of-the-year update about our long-term snow leopard study in the South Gobi, Mongolia. November marked one of the coldest months in South Gobi with mercury dipping to abysmal limits. Field work became increasingly difficult and our camp remained under thick cover of snow. Despite …