It’s official: Tsagaan, the snow leopard we fitted with a radio collar at the end of February, is indeed the cat formerly known as “Bummer.” Tsagaan was first called Bummer last year when, with the aid of hidden infrared trap cameras, researchers documented him sniffing around our study area.
Orjan has also photographed another cat in the base camp area that has not been photographed previously. So far, we have photographed snow leopards Eureka, Superman, and Inquisitive, and Aztai and Tsagaan appear on the cameras all the time. But there may possibly be three more cats, as yet un-named.