A Communal Sign Post of Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia) and Other Species on the Tibetan Plateau, China

Table 1

Numbers of captures, sniffing, and marking behavior of each species captured by camera trapping at the communal sign post.

Group	English name	Latin name	IUCN^1	CN^2	Capture	Sniffing	Marking
Large carnivores	Snow leopard	Panthera uncia	EN	I	145	44	86
	Gray wolf	Canis lupus	LC	II	106	42	5
	Domestic dog	Canis lupus			73	30	3
	Brown bear	Ursus arctos	LC	II	14	12	7
Small carnivores	Red fox	Vulpes vulpes	LC	—	81	28	11
	Tibetan fox	Vulpes ferrilata	LC	—	44	16	3
	Pallas’s cat	Otocolobus manul	NT	II	16	2	1
	Stone marten	Martes foina	LC	II	6	2	0
Herbivores	Blue sheep	Pseudois nayaur	LC	II	891	NA	NA
	Domestic yak	Bos mutus			209	NA	NA

¹IUCN endangered species category (Red List): EN: endangered, NT: near threatened, LC: least concern.
²Category of protected wildlife species under China’s Wildlife Protection Law, —: means not listed.