Sentences with phrase «from snow leopards»

This January, we saw some incredible movements from the snow leopards in our long - term ecological study.

Overall, only 36.1 percent of collected scats thought to be from snow leopards were confirmed as snow leopard.

In fact, with many of the world's predators, from snow leopards and tigers to polar bears, dwindling — some species to the point of extinction — similar reintroduction efforts have been called these animals» last, best hope.

At the invitation of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, leaders from all snow leopard range countries and the international conservation community endorsed the 2017 Bishkek Declaration for Snow Leopards today at the International Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum.

The goal of this comprehensive research is to understand the whole ecosystem in the study area of Tost; from the snow leopard at the top of the food chain down to its prey, both wild and domestic, and how these animals use vegetation and water sources.

The country recently established its first national park and now has created a list of 33 protected species, ranging from the snow leopard to the obscure goitered gazelle and paghman salamander.

Not exact matches

Yes now she can babble mindlessly about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....

Several studies have found traditional Chinese herbal supplements to be tainted will all sorts of things, including actual pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals and even DNA from endangered species like the snow leopard.

But the more - illuminating information comes from in - depth interviews with 42 snow leopard experts across all 12 range countries.

Scientists often spend days tracking rare animals such as snow leopards or orangutans for samples of DNA, for instance from hair or faeces, to understand their movements, monitor their populations and propose ways to protect them.

The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.

The researchers analyzed 199 suspected snow leopard scat samples collected from two study sites in Tajikistan during the summer of 2012 and 56 scats collected from two study sites in Kyrgyzstan between June and December of 2005.

The researchers wanted to look at the problem in a blind fashion, comparing their data sets of what they believed to be snow leopards and what those supposed snow leopards ate with a data set of snow leopard scat that was confirmed through genetic analysis to be from actual snow leopards.

Weiskopf explained that a big problem with collecting and identifying scat in the field is that researchers mostly rely on morphological characteristics such as shape, size or associated signs of snow leopards, and since scat from different species can look similar, this can lead to misrepresented population estimates and errors in reporting what the snow leopards are actually eating.

Guest blogger, Alaina Macri from Edinburgh Zoo recently studied the social behavior of snow leopards in Zoos.

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 GSnow 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 Gsnow 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.

This photo from the Wildlife Conservation Society shows a snow leopard at Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Between 1960 and 1984 there were 141 snow leopards taken from the wild, many of them from the Soviet Union (now Russia).

The London Zoo was the first official zoo to have a snow leopard when it received one from Bhutan in 1891.

Recognize that mountain ecosystems inhabited by snow leopards provide essential ecosystem services, including storing and releasing water from the origins of river systems benefitting one - third of the world's human population; sustaining the pastoral and agricultural livelihoods of local communities which depend on biodiversity for food, fuel, fodder, and medicine; and offering inspiration, recreation, and economic opportunities;

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.

Data from the study proved that snow leopards migrate between various mountain chains, crossing steppe and desert if necessary — promoting efforts to protect these important corridors along with the mountains they link.

Express strong concern about the increasing threats arising from growing human footprint and climate change to the survival of snow leopards and associated mountain biodiversity and to the maintenance of watershed and ecosystem services their habitats provide;

Researchers from the Snow Leopard Trust have been able to locate and examine a pair of wild snow leopard cubs in their den in MongoSnow Leopard Trust have been able to locate and examine a pair of wild snow leopard cubs in their den in Mongosnow leopard cubs in their den in Mongolia.

Through Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust's handicraft development programme, women create products like snow leopard souvenirs from wSnow Leopard Conservancy India Trust's handicraft development programme, women create products like snow leopard souvenirs from wsnow leopard souvenirs from wool.

The four - year UNDP project, funded with US$ 1 million from the GEF and $ US 4.196 million in co-financing, and implemented by the Snow Leopard Trust, will strengthen global transboundary efforts to conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystSnow Leopard Trust, will strengthen global transboundary efforts to conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystsnow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems.

Snow leopards function as a keystone species — although they occur in relatively low abundance, snow leopards play a critical role in regulating the populations of other species, preventing any one species from dominating the habiSnow leopards function as a keystone species — although they occur in relatively low abundance, snow leopards play a critical role in regulating the populations of other species, preventing any one species from dominating the habisnow leopards play a critical role in regulating the populations of other species, preventing any one species from dominating the habitat.

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.

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 Trsnow 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 TrSnow Leopard Conservancy and the Snow Leopard TrSnow Leopard Trust.

From the villagers, our team heard that people in other surrounding hamlets had recently seen snow leopards sneak around close by as well.

I am sure this book will be of interest to everyone from armchair naturalists, students and range - state decision makers, to seasoned snow leopard conservationists.»

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.

So, apart from extended naps and observations, how does a typical day in the life of a snow leopard look?

From a methodological perspective, we achieved high (95 %) success in identification of individual snow leopards from photographs, even though we used only one camera per trapping statFrom a methodological perspective, we achieved high (95 %) success in identification of individual snow leopards from photographs, even though we used only one camera per trapping statfrom photographs, even though we used only one camera per trapping station.

From this, we can stitch together an entire itinerary of an individual snow leopard, over one day or several days.»

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).

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.

«With nearly 200 authors and 47 chapters, «Snow Leopards» covers a wide range of topics from ecology, threats, conservation success stories, new research tools and technologies and country status reports, concluding with an outlook for the species» future.

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

Our work, apart from providing the first estimates of vital rates and other population characteristics of the endangered snow leopard, reiterates the value of long - term monitoring of both abundance and population dynamics for conservation planning and action.

Scientists know that the snow leopard's morphology (branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features) is very different from leopards.

Central Asia's endangered species, including the snow leopard, are under threat from poaching and illegal wildlife trade.

For felid species with individually distinct fur patterns, such as tigers Panthera tigris [8], jaguars Panthera onca [10]--[12], snow leopards Panthera uncia [13], leopards Panthera pardus [14], cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus [15] and ocelots Leopardus pardalis [16], [17], data from camera - trapping can be analysed using capture - recapture models to estimate abundances and population dynamics [2].

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.

«Snow Leopards,» Part of New Series, «Biodiversity of the World Conservation From Genes to Landscapes» was edited by Dr. Tom McCarthy and Dr. David Mallon, recognised snow leopard experts with more than 50 years of collective experience in research and conservation of the specSnow Leopards,» Part of New Series, «Biodiversity of the World Conservation From Genes to Landscapes» was edited by Dr. Tom McCarthy and Dr. David Mallon, recognised snow leopard experts with more than 50 years of collective experience in research and conservation of the specsnow leopard experts with more than 50 years of collective experience in research and conservation of the species.

With programs and staff in five countries in Central Asia and support from around the world, the Snow Leopard Trust is a leader in the effort to secure the future of the snow leopSnow Leopard Trust is a leader in the effort to secure the future of the snow leopsnow leopard.

, Po is chosen as the unlikely Dragon Warrior, prophesied to be the protector of the village from the vengeful menace of mad snow leopard Tai Lung (McShane, The Golden Compass).

The Story: Set in an ancient Asian animal world, a panda named Po (Black) that dreams of being a Kung Fu master is seemingly mistaken to be the chosen one sent to protect the village from the evil snow leopard Tai Lung (McShane).

Oogway's choice is especially egregious in the face of the danger faced by the community: Shifu's erstwhile top student and son - figure, the Luciferian snow leopard Tai Lung (Ian McShane), is said to be planning to escape from prison and attack the valley.

But there's no time for wallowing in their disbelief when the kung fu fighters and Master Shifu (voice by Dustin Hoffman) discover that Tai Lung, the snow leopard (voice by Ian McShane), has escaped from the high security prison controlled by Commander Vichar (voice by Michael Clarke Duncan).