Sentences with phrase «what snow leopard»

It is very difficult to interpret what the snow leopard thought of the smell, did they react as they would any new smell or were they deciphering it as another cat?

«We've got this concept of what snow leopard scat looks like and where it can be found, so we think we can go out and collect it.

A lot of old studies on what snow leopards eat are based on just that, collections that people have done in the wild,» said McCarthy.

«That's what we consider the bias in our food habit studies and that was the ultimate goal of Sarah's project — to find out how far off we may have been in the past with what snow leopards eat and then ultimately refining our understanding of what they eat,» said McCarthy.

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.

Not exact matches

While studying snow leopard scat is one of the least invasive ways to look at what the animals are eating and gauge their food preferences, according to a new UD study it may not always be the most accurate.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

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.

«When we started doing genetics on snow leopard feces to try and get at a different question, which was individual identification of snow leopards, we started realizing that a lot of what we picked up and thought was snow leopard scat was not.»

This long - term research has given us a fairly good understanding of the behavior of individual snow leopards, such as what they eat, how often they kill, if they are territorial, and how much space they use.

What would it be like to drive and trek the remote Altai Mountains in southern Siberia to search for Russia's last 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 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.

What may appear unusual for a wildlife biologist is only natural for Charu: «The people who share the habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most important partners in protecting them», he explains.

Read more on what zoos are doing to protect their snow leopards.

Nowadays it is illegal to capture wild snow leopards but sometimes, although rarely it still happens, usually when villagers come across young cubs they assume to be in danger and capture them for what they believe is their own good.

With a baseline of what diseases are present in the snow leopards, a clearly defined protocol for surveillance can be tailored so that monitoring will avoid wasting resources and causing undue stress to the animals while identifying potential disease threats in ample time for appropriate action.

A snow leopard isn't thinking about what muscles to flex, engage, suck in or tone when moving around.

That's what it felt like when I was casually purusing my local Tar - jay last week, and my eyes locked in on this snow leopard print.

You're correct, but what you don't say is that they have leopards, snow leopards, cheetahs, African lions, Siberian tigers, and Indo - chinese tigers!