Tracking the Ghosts of the Himalayas: Snow Leopard Conservation Insights From Satellite Collar Data by Pratistha Shrestha, Dayaram Pandey, Pemba Sherpa, Prakash Shah, Dipesh Kumar Sharma

“…ABSTRACT This study presents the first movement analysis of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) using satellite telemetry data, focusing on the northeastern Himalayas of Nepal. …”
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Narrow Dietary Niche With High Overlap Between Snow Leopards and Himalayan Wolves Indicates Potential for Resource Competition in Shey Phoksundo National Park, Nepal by Sandesh Lamichhane, Bikram Shrestha, Bhumi Prakash Chaudhary Tharu, Raj Kumar Koirala, Bishnu Prasad Bhattarai, Pratigyan Poudel, Binaya Adhikari, Gopal Khanal

“…In Central Asia and the Himalayas, wolves have recolonized snow leopard habitats, raising considerable concern about resource competition between these apex predators. …”
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Understanding resource use and dietary niche partitioning in a high-altitude predator guild using seasonal sampling and DNA metabarcoding. by Charlotte E Hacker, Wei Cong, Yunchuan Dai, Jia Li, Ye Li, Diqiang Li, Rodney Jackson, Jan E Janecka, Yuguang Zhang

“…Dietary niche overlap was greater than expected when considering all species (p < 0.001) across seasons and between the Tibetan wolf and snow leopard in March (p = 0.007) when compared for species pairs by season. …”
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Ladakh, kingdom of sustainable development? by David Goeury

“…Certain large emblematic mammals like the snow leopard have enabled the legitimisation of a policy that is based on the participation of local inhabitants rather than on their eviction to areas outside the sanctuaries. …”
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Use of a Sendai virus-based vector for effcient transduction of pinniped fbroblasts by V. R. Beklemisheva, A. G. Menzorov

“…Generation of order Carnivora iPS cells from dog (Canis lupus familiaris), snow leopard (Panthera uncia), and American mink (Neovison vison) was previously reported. …”
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Heart abnormality classification using ECG and PCG recordings with novel PJM-DJRNN by Nadikatla Chandrasekhar, Sujatha Canavoy Narahari, Sreedhar Kollem, Samineni Peddakrishna, Archana Penchala, Babji Prasad Chapa

“…Then, the important features are selected using Poisson Distribution Function - Snow Leopard Optimization (PDF-SLO), and the PJM-DJRNN is used to classify the types of disease. …”
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Decades of leopard coexistence in the Himalayas driven by ecological dynamics, not climate change by Paras Bikram Singh, Pradip Saud, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pawan Rai, Jeff R. Muntifering, Huijian Hu, Ajay Karki, Yiming Hu, Kumar P. Mainali

“…Our analysis reveals a considerable overlap between common and snow leopards in sub-alpine mixed forest and alpine scrub. …”
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