How snow leopards 'leave the nest'

We’ve  been really excited to follow two female snow leopard: Tenger and her daughter Zaraa and now, for the first time, we are watching this snow leopard cub ‘leave the nest!’ The timing of Zaraa’s apparent separation from her mother is occurring around the time of year when we believe snow leopards begin breeding.  This makes us speculate whether …

A Snow Leopard Romance for Valentine's Day

With Tsagaan fitted with an improved GPS tracking collar this past September, we have learned a remarkable amount of information on his recent whereabouts. His home range overlaps with that of Khashaa, Tenger and Zara (the three females in our research study) and his GPS locations show him visiting all of them more than once …

"James Bond" is a Female: The Elusive New Cat Joins Our Study

Orjan is a Swedish PhD student who works at the base camp of our long-term research project in Mongolia. These are his adventures… At 03:19 (on October 15, 2010) our trap surveillance system alarm went off. This system, with its siren, makes me feel a little like a fire-fighter. In true “fire-fighter manner,” I jumped …

Follow the Cats Update: Zaraa Enters the Badlands

(Map Courtesy of SLT/Panthera) We are happy to announce that the collars worn by Aztai, Khavar and Zaraa continue to work fabulously, uploading up to 80% of the scheduled locations; those of Shonkhor, Tsagaan, Saikhan and Devekh seem to be under-performing. The good news is that Orjan will be returning to the field shortly (he …