Counting Cats: The endangered snow leopards of the Himalayas

In this article they talk about the endangered snow leopard. Most of the snow leopards live in high mountainous areas of central Asia. Originally they assumed that there was about 350-500 snow leopards left. After scientists did testing on their tracks, scrapes, and droppings they are starting to believe there is a lot less. Scientists recorded
seventy one samples of droppings or scat and after performing genetic analysison each sample they discovered that only nineteen were identified as snow leopard. Ten of which were successfully genotyped. This was the first team to
use genetics with the conservation of snow leopards.