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… Yeeeeeaaaaahhhiiii!! A female. We have a female. And it is a very pretty female too. We fitted her with a collar very close to Camp, and since it …
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Orjan finally found a girl!
Orjan has just placed GPS collars on two more snow leopards: Saikhan (fifth cat to be collared) and, this morning, a female snow leopard (sixth cat to be collared, as yet no nickname). You can read Orjan’s account of Saikhan HERE, but the female snow leopard is so new, we still have very little information. Here …
Fifth Cat Collared: Saikhan
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… We placed a GPS tracking collar on a fifth snow leopard. It is a male, what else to expect. We might have hit jackpot though, he weighs 33.8 …
Fourth Snow Leopard: Shonkhor
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 am doing something wrong. We placed a collar on our fourth snow leopard a couple of days ago. It is a … male. Surprise eh? Don’t know …
The nomad life.
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… Today we moved and built the new camp. I checked our cameras again and there were no snow leopard pictures on them, so in two weeks we have …
Ibex and Sandstorms
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… Emma left today. This must be the emptiest day in the Gobi for me. We have built ten traps, put out a few cameras, checked some kill sites …
Oyuna Crazy fires
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… If you come to Mongolia you will notice that no matter how cold it is outside it will be very, very warm inside the gers. And warmest of …
Cubs Have Been Spotted!
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… Two days ago, Bo and I went with Miji to visit a family whose livestock had been raided by a female snow leopard with two cubs. This was the first …
Tsagaan Re-collared
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… As mentioned a few days ago on this blog, we re-collared Tsagaan a couple of days ago. It feels really, really great! Here are some more details: After …
Snow tracks, researchers and storms
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 found a really fresh (3-6 hours) snow leopard track in the snow two weeks ago. I try to gather as much information about the animal as possible, …