When do snow leopards hunt their prey? When do they rest? While these questions may seem tangential to conservation, a better understanding of snow leopard activity patterns can help inform our conservation efforts to protect the species and prepare for any threats on the horizon. Read on to learn more about the days and nights in the life of a snow leopard.
The saga of Anu continues. This snow leopard mother living in Mongolia’s Tost mountains not only keeps surprising us – she also provides a powerful example of nature’s perseverance!
With remote-sensor research cameras, our field teams are surveying snow leopard populations in key habitats in five of the cat’s range countries. While these cameras are very much a research tool, they also provide us with breathtaking images of the elusive snow leopard. We’re happy to share some of the very best pics from the …
This beautiful wild snow leopard’s path led it past one of the research cameras our Indian team had deployed in the rugged mountains of Spiti, Himachal Pradesh. photos by NCF India/Snow Leopard Trust/Himachal Pradesh Forest Department. These endangered cats have become increasingly rare in the last decades. Their famously elusive nature makes snow leopards …
IMPORTANT UPDATE On February 24th, 2009, the Snow Leopard Trust placed a GPS radio collar on a 3rd snow leopard. The snow leopard is a male, estimated to be 4-5 years old. He is a little bigger (longer) than Longtail was. His body length is 115 cm, tail length 98 cm and skull length 22 cm. He is …
Orjan’s not back at base camp yet, but he is preparing to return and should be there before the end of January. A little while ago, we asked him how he uses the trap cameras to ID individual cats: You asked earlier how we identify them. All the cats have a number of “high profile …
Here are some facts for you about the trap cameras we are using: they take pictures every 1/2 second they have a four-month battery life (supposedly, have not run out yet) their flash cards each have a 15,ooo picture capacity In addition, the GPS radio collars are really great too. We are receiving about 60% …
In the early morning of September 14, the members of the base camp research team heard the alert as one of their traps had been triggered… 7:55 am, 14th of September 2008, we did radio-collar the snow leopard formerly known as Longtail. You could almost touch the tension in the car as we were …
For those of you who are interested in seeing more trap camera photos of snow leopards, check out our Flickr page. You can also see pictures of our base camp, and our “Photo of the Month” series.
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 was wrong about catching a cat on the 2nd of September, too bad, we almost caught one though. A week ago a trap camera photographed a …
