from 53 years ago went back and did it all again. And what she found out, was two things. In the entire population of Collared Pikas, one thing is a little bone in the skull had changed. The entire population. They don't have fax. They don't have e-mail. They don't have a way of saying 'okay everybody, change this bone in your skull to be this long'. They evolved within 50
Do they travel hundreds of kilometers? And they're both collared here.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. So we collared , while I was there, 10 elephants-- five male, five female.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. So after being collared , there's this one you see here in red.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. She was collared up here, off the top of the map.
They saw it perfectly. Apparently he was collared for an hour and 10 minutes by a very good interviewer and really asked
together. It wasn't just classical. It wasn't just kind of collared jacket stuff. It was kind of everything together.
old-fashioned way. Because of the the head prof there. He's kind of old-fashioned. So we had a Ph. D. Candidate, Hayley, and she went around. 53 years ago, this biologist went around and sampled all the Collared Pika which you see on the screen now. He sampled the entire world population which is down in Canada all the way up into Alaska and sample means okay? Take a skin, do the skulls, basic sampling which is what science has been doing for eons. Science
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So it's already a decent sample size to understand their ecology. And it's the most snow leopards ever collared in one area in the world. So what did we learn?
So here is a story about an individual snow leopard called Aztai. Here, Aztai was collared . And he was a three-year-old sub-adult snow leopard.
Do they travel hundreds of kilometers? However, other collared cats have traveled over 300 kilometers squared looking for a home.
and that is to photograph the biology of a critter. That's my specialty. Asking questions in my mind and trying to find it in the view finder to bring back answers 53 years ago had not sampled all those Collared Pica, if he hadn't done that and those bone collections weren't in the Smithsonian, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley.
So more about the collaring -- so back in 2008, three trapping areas were set up in the Tost area. And since 2009, 30 snow leopards have been collared . And we have information on 30 snow leopards.
And he knew all of these individuals very well. And there were some more feisty individuals that were not happy if they were collared again. So what did we learn from this collaring ?
He looks a bit like Indiana Jones in this picture, but it's a little different nowadays. He's retired now. But this was the first captured tigeress-- the first radio-collared tiger in Chitwan that I was fortunate enough to help out on this study in the early days.
ain't no more. That's the issue. On this particular mountain where Number 6 lived -- it was a small colony up in the Alaska range and there's probably I'm going to say 33, 36 Collared Pika on this entire slope. They only had about another 40 feet, vertical feet to go up and then there was just sky.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. And then this is just a zoom-in on a larger map that we have in the book, to show what happened after 30 days of being collared .
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. And this guy, down here, he was the first one, within 24 hours of being collared , to use one of the underpasses
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. But I guess that makes it easier, when they were doing their aerial surveys, to see where the ones they collared were.
I mean, I can't make Batman darker than you made him. And I can't make him more of a family man than you made him, James, or as high collared as you made him. That's the one place I think we can go with Batman that will create a lot of conflict is giving him a little happiness and seeing
of which one of the worst was this massacre that took place in Cameroon where it was thought something like between 300 and 500 elephants were shot. And these are some pictures that came in from the bush. Sometimes, of course, we find that it's one of our collared elephants that gets killed. Well I, I just want to end on the solutions for the future. One of the solutions is obviously to lure demand in the consuming countries, particularly in China.
direct because of the change in the climate. They don't have, in the summer time, where they were, the warmth they need to grow the forearms they have to grab. And what they do. This is Number 6 and he was a character. Now, a Collared Pika is about the size of tennis ball. They're little guys, all right? And they live on talus slopes . Talus slopes are what you see a lot in the Sierra. It's where you have all that border of boulders borders and all those rocks
They're just one of a kind, kind of critters. We have the American Pika down here. It should be listed. It's now in such a peril, they're thinking about listing it as threatened. And this is the thing called Collared Pika, which is the far reaches of North America. Well, Number 6 -- what he's doing here is what they normally do in the summer time. They're constantly going out to get
that so it's a one time thing so it's called anecdotal even though it's a photograph that's part of the process. So I'm out there not only to make the picture record all this information, but then it's my goal to bring that story back. That's the whole goal. Because how many people here have heard of a Collared Pika before? That's my point. It's just not known, not seen. Well, this project we worked on for about ten days. We is my youngest son Jake and myself. So Link -- the head prof
before? That's my point. It's just not known, not seen. Well, this project we worked on for about ten days. We is my youngest son Jake and myself. So Link -- the head prof said, "hey, we're going to go after a critter that is in worse shape than the Collared Pika up there." And I said, "really?" He goes, "yeah." So two years ago, we started planning this three week trip up the Haul Road Many people have seen the Haul Road trucker