Snow leopards in Zoos

Philadelphia Zoo snow leopard cubs get eye operations

October 27, 2011 Snow leopards in Zoos

Two snow leopard cubs, Kimti and Dian, born in June at Philadelphia Zoo have had major surgery to correct coloboma, a medical condition that causes irritation and infections from hairs touching the eyes. Both cubs had the small areas of the centre of their eyelids missing, a condition that is not uncommon in Zoo births. [...]

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Himalayan Tahr get great views at Sydney Zoo

August 16, 2011 Snow leopard habitat

The Himalayan tahr is an ungulate or wild goat that shares snow leopard habitat in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalayas in Nepal, India and Tibet. They are key snow leopard prey in this region and in summer graze in high pastures, then come down the mountains and form herds in [...]

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Snow leopard Ming-Wah learns to accept medical treatment

June 5, 2011 Snow leopards in Zoos

A news item from San Francisco Zoo sent to me by Jenn Castner of the Altai Project tells how carnivore keepers are giving extraordinary care to snow leopard grand dame Ming-Wah who has kidney failure. “Did you know the median life expectancy for snow leopards is no more than 12 years old? So when our [...]

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Pavan the celebrity snow leopard gets new home

May 2, 2011 Snow leopards in Zoos

A beautiful male snow leopard, which appeared in the fantasy film ‘The Golden Compass’ a few years ago, (starred Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman) was recently rehoused at the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis at Hale in the UK. Pavan, is one of two celebrity snow leopards that played the part of Stelmaria, Lord Asriel’s daemon or [...]

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Snow leopards in zoos, do they really want to be alone?

April 24, 2011 Guest Blogger

Many Zoos around the world with snow leopards have to decide if adult cats should be on their own or housed with other cats. In the wild of course, snow leopards are solitary except for a short mating time and when cubs stay with their mother till adulthood at about 2 years of age. One [...]

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Melbourne Zoo snow leopards getting summer coats

December 22, 2010 Snow leopards in Zoos

Sometimes I think the snow leopards in our Australian zoos must get awfully confused with the southern hemisphere seasons but right on time, according to Adrian Howard (Howie), Senior Carnivore Keeper at Melbourne Zoo, our snow leopards are running around, scratching themselves up against tree trunks, posts and rocks to help shed thick woolly winter [...]

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More on Kamala’s stem cell therapy

December 11, 2010 Snow leopards in Zoos

Taronga Zoo in Sydney has released a video of the stem cell therapy operation on Kamala, their female snow leopard with the knee arthritis. It’s a fascinating insight into this new technology and we hope Kamala’s knee is a lot better after this. Story here.

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Kabul Zoo story confusion

December 7, 2010 Afghanistan

Thanks to Sally Walker of Zoo Outreach Organisation who has a close association with Kabul Zoo for sending this email to “Saving Snow Leopard” Blog about the AFP (Agence France Presse) article on the director of the Zoo, Aziz Gul Saqeb’s trip to India to get animals for the zoo, including a snow leopard. We [...]

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Kabul zoo hoping to get snow leopard from India

December 3, 2010 Afghanistan

I see from a news report today Kabul Zoo officials are keen to restock their Zoo after severe damage over the last 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. I wondered if staff and the facility are ready to take on the responsibility and safety and well being of new animals? Certainly for the troubled people [...]

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Stem cell operation world first for snow leopard at Sydney Zoo

November 22, 2010 Snow leopards in Zoos

Kamala, the five year old female snow leopard at Taronga Zoo in Sydney Australia, has an arthritic knee that hasn’t been responding to medical treatment. Zoo vets just completed an operation to remove fat from her stomach, which was then processed in a lab and injected into Kamala’s right hind knee joint. The injected sample [...]

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