The Denver Zoo sponsors global research and conservation projects - The Denver Post: "Ikh Nart consists of about 160,000 acres in central Mongolia, on the edge of the Gobi Desert. At 4,000 feet high, Ikh Nart looks a lot like the eastern plains of Wyoming — vast, dry grasslands punctuated by rocky outcrops.
On those rocks, cinereous vultures, enormous birds that weigh about 18 to 21 pounds each, make huge nests so sturdy they can support an adult man. Durian and long-eared hedgehogs live inside the rock crevices. So does the Pallas' coluber, a snake species that was the subject of an award-winning research project by L. Ankhbayar, a Mongolian student working with the Denver Zoo."
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