Model based inferences from a separate analysis using
adult snow leopards» data, grouped as male and female on program Mark indicated that the detection probability did not vary between sexes.
However, assuming individuals that migrated permanently were lost from the study population (died), we estimated the life expectancy of
adult snow leopards to be 5 years (95 % CI: 2.05 — 13.78 years).
During our 4 year study period, we recorded the mortality of 4
adult snow leopards, all of which were males.
We tested if the parameters for these young snow leopards remained the same after 2 years, became similar to other known adults, or were entirely different from young and
adult snow leopards.
The adult population was estimated separately for each year using photographic data of 8, 11, 13 and 13
adult snow leopards identified respectively for each year.
From our long - term camera trapping in the Tost mountains, we have estimated that the area is home to 10 to 14
adult snow leopards at any given time.
We've calculated that
an adult snow leopard kills and eats an ungulate roughly every 8 days — or between 40 and 50 animals a year.
Not exact matches
Children and
adults alike can see owls, anteaters, sloths, lemurs, gibbon's even
snow leopards and lions.
Many Zoos around the world with
snow leopards have to decide if
adult cats should be on their own or housed with other cats.
This size was deemed appropriate allowing about 2 camera stations per home range [22] since the mean minimum summer and annual ranges of
snow leopards in Tost are estimated to be c. 55 km2 and 70 km2, respectively for 9
adult breeding females using fixed Kernel estimators on 12,498 locations over a period of five years (Johansson et.
Young
snow leopards showed a high probability of temporary emigration and immigration (0.6, SE + − 0.19 and 0.68, SE + − 0.32 before and after the age of 2 years) though not the
adults (0.02 SE + − 0.07).
For instance, the significant change in
adult sex ratio of
snow leopards over the sampling period we recorded was unexpected.
We used robust design multi-season mark - recapture analysis to estimate the trends in abundance, sex ratio, survival probability and the probability of temporary emigration and immigration for
adult and young
snow leopards.
We examine the trends in population abundance and sex ratio, and estimate the detectability, survival probability and probabilities of temporary emigration and immigration for
adult and young
snow leopards.
Although all
snow leopards were identified as unique individuals based on camera trap pictures, the sexing of
adults would perhaps not have been possible for many individuals (except females with young), had we not been capturing them for collaring.
In this first ever multi-year monitoring of
snow leopards, we found the population in Tost Mountains of South Gobi to have remained almost constant, and the estimated mean
adult population remained between 12 and 14, and the total population (including young) between 19 and 21.
The
snow leopard has very substantial energy needs: an
adult male consumes around one ibex or argali sheep per week, more than twice its own body weight.