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A single male can range over more than a thousand square kilometers in the course of his life. An animal like this is rarely seen and is difficult to count. For most of the history of trying to count this species, the honest answer has been that nobody knew. That matters more than it might seem.
Knowing roughly how many snow leopards there are and where they live help...
More than twenty years ago, when I began working with herding communities in Mongolia’s snow leopard landscapes, I arrived with enthusiasm, ideas, and conservation goals. We wanted to reduce threats to snow leopards, protect their habitat, and work with communities to develop approaches that could last.
Long befo...
Our colleague just returned from a trip to our long-term ecological study area in Mongolia. She recounted the fascinating experience of finding a snow leopard kill site with the field team. After a little detective work, they determined that Presnel, one of our collared female snow leopards, had killed an argali and shared it with her three cubs.
Argali are the larges...
Eight years ago, Sue Heim began training as an interpretive volunteer at the San Diego Zoo. Snow leopards and Amur leopards were the first big cats she learned about. Young snow leopards caught her attention immediately. She remembers them as “the floofiest, funniest, most uncoordinated and gorgeous little cats you have ever seen.” T...