The pellet groups encountered during the monitoring were collected, dried and kept for subsequent analysis of faeces to investigate the food habits of red panda. On encountering pellet group/groups, information recorded were on the number of pellets in a pellet group, number of groups at one place and the type of substrates used.
For each sighting, notes on the number of animals, sex, age and activity were taken. An encounter rate of pellet groups/100 hours was used as an index to quantify the relative abundance in the study are