Monitoring the snow leopard population in the Altai Mountains (Chikhachev Ridge, Siberia)

The snow leopard population has been monitored on the Chikhacvhev Ridge for 10 years since 2011 using camera traps. In 2021, a male was recorded. We recorded several concurrent predatory species, like red fox, Pallas’s cat, wolverine, and brown bear, and prey species Altai marmots. The snow leopards...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Parkhomenko, Maksim R., Antonenko, Tatyana V., Matsyura, Alex V., Spitsyn, Sergey V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2023
Subjects:
Snow leopard
Altai mountain country
Chikhachev Ridge
IUCN
population count
camera trap
Altai Reserve
Sibirica
Siberia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8365455
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Summary:The snow leopard population has been monitored on the Chikhacvhev Ridge for 10 years since 2011 using camera traps. In 2021, a male was recorded. We recorded several concurrent predatory species, like red fox, Pallas’s cat, wolverine, and brown bear, and prey species Altai marmots. The snow leopards performed visual and olfactory marking at their area. We concluded that snow leopards in this transboundary mountain area were active at temperatures up to 3 °C in summer period.

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