Snow leopard triplets are zoo's latest marvel
Snow leopard triplets are zoo's latest marvel
The birth of three snow leopards at a wildlife park in western Sweden has left staff swooning, and has provided a rare insight for researchers into the lives of this little-known, elusive animal.
"They are beautiful animals," Tom Svensson from the Nordens Ark wildlife park told The Local.
"Of course, the staff get very attached to them, but we don't handle them directly. It's important to remember they are wild animals."
The three snow leopard cubs, named Shishir, Sanjic and Shyla, were born in late May and are still too small to leave the den - although the siblings have been spotted playing gently with one another.
"They are very young and are barely walking, but in a few weeks they will be playing around a lot more," Svensson predicted.
When the female had her first cubs in 2008, Nordens Ark mounted a camera to take unique pictures of the birth. Now, the wildlife charity is showing how the cubs behave in the first days, weeks and months after birth by introducing a live web feed straight from the cub's lair (watch live feed below).
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Two died, one in birth and the other nine days later due to bacterial sepsis in its blood. The other, however, is doing great. The cubs had to be hand raised due to complications from birth with the mother, who was moved to the zoo's vet hospital but is now doing better.
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