Sentences with phrase «snow leopard scientists»
Recently snow leopard scientists have found some evidence that suggests the big cats may be more common than previously thought.
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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 iconic snow leopard might no longer be classed as an endangered species, if some scientists have their way.
Our scientists believe that it takes around 75 ibex or 50 argali per snow leopard in an ecosystem for the cats to survive.
Field scientist Örjan Johansson is back in the South Gobi, the site of our long - term snow leopard study.
«Only in recent years have advances such as satellite telemetry and compact camera traps capable of taking high - quality night shots while surviving extreme low temperatures allowed scientists to begin to unravel the mysteries behind the snow leopard's life,» said Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) scientist Dr. Stephane Ostrowski.
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.
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.
No one really knows for sure how many snow leopards there are left in the world, but an initiative spearheaded by snow leopard range countries and scientists announced last week...