Weekly Cat Update: Saikhan in the badlands

Saikhan
Saikhan

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 our field staff did not have the opportunity to look for Tsagaan (whose collar has unexpectedly stopped transmitting) prior to leaving the research site. We’ll have to wait until Orjan returns in October to potentially learn anything about his fate, unless he happens to appear in some of our camera trapping photos–we brought back thousands but still need to go through them.

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