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 …
Tag: Mongolia
Snow Leopard Camp Update
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… Our first volunteer, Ashley Spearing arrived to Dalandzadgad when Kim and Namshur took off and he has kept me busy. Ashley is a British guy who has …
Ashley Sights His First 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… First of all, perfume works great as attractant [the team is trying to catch a female snow leopard since so far they only have collared males]. Downside …
Second Snow Leopard Collared!
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 …
Don’t kill the cook
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… At about noon, Kim and Namshur all left the camp. Mije is driving and Oyuna came along. She has been complaining about a bad tooth ache for …
Build it and the Snow Leopards Will Come–Maybe
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 …
Thoughts and reflections about life in Mongolia
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… Its warm again. Which is nice, and what makes it even nicer is that it’s not super-hot. Neither the car nor the cook has arrived yet. Kim …
Freezing our #@!#’s off in the Gobi
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… Well, the big thing is that it’s cold! as in really cold. Or maybe not really cold, but it feels really cold cause I’ve gotten used to …
Title, Snow leopards 2 (maybe 3) – Researchers 0
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… Yesterday morning, Kim woke me up saying ” one of the snares has changed pulse.” “Really” I replied, a bit newly awake. “Yup” she replied and left …
Heavy rain in the Gobi desert
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… Considering that we are at the border to the Gobi desert I must say that it rained quite heavily the night after we caught Aztai so yesterday, …