A female snow leopard with three cubs was captured on camera traps in early September in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. This year, the rutting season lasted throughout February-March. The female animal was last caught on trail cameras in May. In summer she was hiding, and in September she was seen with three cubs.

In 2008-2013, the Sayano-Shushensky Reserve was home to seven or eight snow leopards. Several males would come to the reserve for mating, and would leave at the end of the rutting season. Since 2008, the dominant female and young sexually-mature females born at the reserve mated during the rutting season. No births were registered. Later, the animals left the reserve.

In 2014, four snow leopards – three adult males and one female – were registered in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. Now with the birth of the three cubs, the reserve is inhabited by seven snow leopards.