Saikhan continues his exploratory movements. This time he ventured several kilometers into a “badlands” area of low-lying sandstone-like formations in the Toson-Bumba mountain range, and area that we would consider to be ‘unsuitable’ snow leopard habitat. Itgel continues to make small, but consistent movements in the vicinity of the site where we collared him. Unfortunately …
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Field Camera Footage of a Wild Snow Leopard
Here is a video of Saikhan, a wild male snow leopard we are studying in Mongolia. Assistant Director of Science Kim Murray made this video by piecing together still frames, taken every half second, from a remote field camera.
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 …