Aztai (green) continues to avidly patrol the core of his home range. In the last two weeks, we were able to fit Aztai with a new collar, and it appears that he made a kill on April 24th. With so many new male recruits hovering around his territory, he seems to be very busy marking …
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GPS Study: Following Devekh Across Mongolia's Tost Mountains
As you can see on the map, Devekh’s movements these past two weeks have been remarkable (Devekh’s positions and trajectories are represented by the blue dots and lines). He has already given us quite a lot of data points to follow! Two weeks ago Devekh was heading Southeast toward the Tost Mountains. He continued this …
New Collared Cat M7 is A Fast Mover
After several weeks of only hearing from one or two cats, we have recent location uplinks from four of the five collared snow leopards. Perhaps one of the most remarkable journeys depicted by this data is that of our newest cat we call M7 (blue). He is a real mover! He was fitted with his …
Just how much scat do we need?
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 …
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 …
Aztai and the Sleeping Bag
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… Note: our team is trying to fit snow leopards with radio collars. Instead of a new snow leopard, they caught Aztai (who was collared in August 2008). This article refers …
Last 2008 Update
Our team continues to watch the GPS data points from Longtail (aka Bayartai) and Aztai’s radio collars. The latest update reports that Bayartai has moved a bit farther west than he has ever been before; he’s about 34 km from camp. Now that Bayartai has moved to the west, Aztai continues to spend most of his time in …
Where Do Snow Leopards Go
Here is a preliminary map of how Aztai is moving: 1. Aztai is collared 2. About two weeks later Aztai is 50 km away 3. About three weeks after being collared, he is back near the base camp
Snow Leopard Fast Facts
Here are some numbers we wanted to share with you: Longtail’s tail is 92 cm (36 inches) long–almost as long as his body, which is 118 cm long. The longest distance Aztai has traveled in one day is 11 miles. Compare that to Bayad, the snow leopard that the Trust collared in Pakistan: the longest …
Have we confused anyone yet?
If you’ve been following this blog, you might think there are five–maybe even six–different snow leopards that are named so far: Aztai, Longtail, Eureka (our only girl so far), Bayartai, Uncle and Inquisitive. Well, there are actually only 4, but two go by two different names! Uncle and Aztai are the same cat, and Longtail …