We often see agility, dance and play in snow leopards in zoos but this is the first time such a photograph has captured wild snow leopards and we congratulate the team at the Mongolia Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and the Snow Leopard Trust who are doing long
term camera trapping snow leopard conservation in the mountains of Mongolia.
As long as
trapping stations are set up in sites where snow leopards are likely to linger (e.g. marking locations), thereby allowing multiple images and both flanks to be photographed, one
camera trap appears adequate, especially when conducting long -
term monitoring and using
cameras that are capable of taking multiple images rapidly (< 1 second intervals).