Key takeaway: Healthy snow leopard populations need enough wild prey. Livestock can’t replace wild prey as the cats’ main food source. Highlights: Field work for this paper was done in 7 sites in India and Mongolia and involved camera trapping, double observer surveys, and genetics research. Our research has established that the availability of wild prey …
Key takeaway: Many snow leopard attacks on livestock can be avoided with vigilant herding, small adjustments and better corrals. Highlights: For the first time ever, by closely monitoring radio-collared snow leopards, our scientists were able to study prey preferences and predation patterns of individual snow leopards, and establish the circumstances, times and locations of snow leopard …
