Dr. Rodney Jackson and Dr. B Munkhtsog with “Togoldor”

“Togoldor” Fitted with a GPS
Radio Collar in Mongolia!

In September, 2008, a team including Rodney Jackson, Dr. B Munkhtsog, Duggin Wroe, ace mountain lion and jaguar tracker and trapper, and a volunteer veterinarian experienced in wildlife immobilization captured an adult male snow leopard in Mongolia and fitted him with a Northstar satellite collar. The Mongolian team selected the name “Togoldor”, which means very great, amazing, incredible. The snow leopard’s GPS collar has been consistently sending locations, which we are tracking via computer.

Click on the above image for a video showing Togoldor’s movements from 9/21 to 3/1.(Quicktime Movie – 474 Mb)

We have been tracking Togoldor via computer, since he was radio-collared in September 2008. This video shows the amazingly small territory he is using, a mountain that is just about 30 miles long and fourteen miles wide. Each stop the Togoldor icon makes represents a location plotted by the global positioning system in his collar. Unless he is deep in a canyon, we get these locations every seven hours. When the collar drops off &ndash as it is programmed to do later this year – it will provide even more invaluable information on Togoldor’s movements, habitat use, and home range size.

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