Comparison of model results with the «known population» of radio -
collared snow leopards suggested high accuracy in our estimates.
Two young
collared snow leopards illustrated this by dispersing to the nearby Nemegt Mountains after crossing about 80 km of steppe.
Together with his colleague Gustaf Samelius, he's attempting to
collar snow leopards and ibex this spring to allow us to track their movements.
Dr Rodney Jackson and Dr Bariushaa Munkhtsog with radio
collared snow leopard in 2008.
Not exact matches
Combined with future work using remote cameras, scat - based DNA analysis and GPS
collars, this project could reveal crucial information about how far the
snow leopards travel in the area, how they interact within families and how fluctuations in available prey affect the cats.
Using remote - sensor research cameras and GPS tracking
collars,
Snow Leopard Trust researchers have been able to follow and observe a young female snow leopard named Anu over the course of four years as she grew up, dispersed from her mother and later had cubs herself twice in her mountain habitat in Mongolia's South G
Snow Leopard Trust researchers have been able to follow and observe a young female
snow leopard named Anu over the course of four years as she grew up, dispersed from her mother and later had cubs herself twice in her mountain habitat in Mongolia's South G
snow leopard named Anu over the course of four years as she grew up, dispersed from her mother and later had cubs herself twice in her mountain habitat in Mongolia's South Gobi.
During this study, we've been constantly monitoring the
snow leopard population of Tost with camera traps, and have tracked a total of 23 individual
snow leopards with GPS
collars.
Good news from the base camp of our long - term
snow leopard study in Mongolia's Tost Mountains: Our team has managed to equip a new male
snow leopard with a GPS
collar, allowing them to track the cat's movements in the months to come.
Dagina, an eight - year old female
snow leopard we've known since she was a tiny cub, becomes our latest cat to be tracked with a GPS
collar in the world's most comprehensive study of wild
snow leopards.
Most of what we know about
snow leopard habitat and the way the cats live in their habitat comes from the successful radio collar projects run by the Snow Leopard Conservancy and the Snow Leopard Tr
snow leopard habitat and the way the cats live in their habitat comes from the successful radio
collar projects run by the
Snow Leopard Conservancy and the Snow Leopard Tr
Snow Leopard Conservancy and the
Snow Leopard Tr
Snow Leopard Trust.
Tsetsen, a male
snow leopard wearing a GSP collar in Mongolia's Tost Mountains as part of the Snow Leopard Trust's long - term study of these cats, has gone offline as schedu
snow leopard wearing a GSP
collar in Mongolia's Tost Mountains as part of the
Snow Leopard Trust's long - term study of these cats, has gone offline as schedu
Snow Leopard Trust's long - term study of these cats, has gone offline as scheduled.
To find out, Gustaf and his colleagues programmed the GPS
collars on two cats to log a position every hour, giving them the most complete picture yet of how a
snow leopard moves through the landscape.
Thanks to hourly GPS position uploads from tracking
collars, researchers can reconstruct a day in the life of a wild
snow leopard in unprecedented detail.
Usually, GPS
collars on
snow leopards only send a position to the satellite every 5 hours, which preserves the
collar's battery life.
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.
Tom and I both learned a lot in the field
collaring and doing telemetry of
snow leopards.
As we head into the 5th year of our long - term ecological study, six
snow leopards are currently wearing GPS tracking
collars, including Aztai, the first cat we had ever
collared.
In 2011, she became one of the first female
snow leopards to be tracked with a GPS
collar.
Field scientist Örjan Johansson called in earlier this week to report that he had successfully fitted a new GPS
collar on Devekh, a large male
snow leopard we had previously been following for a few months back in 2010, before his original
collar dropped off.
We've been tracking
snow leopards with GPS
collars as part of our long - term study in Mongolia for 4 years.
This study uses GPS tracking
collars to follow
snow leopards as they move around the landscape.