{"id":342777,"date":"2025-12-12T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342777\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:52:20","slug":"rare-amur-leopard-cub-born-at-dartmoor-zoo-is-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342777\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Amur leopard cub born at Dartmoor Zoo is named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A zoo has revealed the name and sex of a rare leopard cub born in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Dartmoor Zoo said <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9d6467xd80o#:~:text=A%20rare%20leopard%20cub%20has,to%20parents%20Lena%20and%20Freddo.\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zeya was born at the Devon park in September.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Staff said the cub was named after the River Zeya, a major tributary of the Amur River, within the animal&#8217;s native range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">CEO David Gibson said there were fewer than 200 Amur leopards in captivity globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Gibson said: &#8220;Now that we know for definite that the cub is healthy and thriving, we can allow ourselves to properly celebrate this major event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Watching how Lena [Zeya&#8217;s mother] has cared for this precious soul in the first few weeks of its life is a real privilege and one that all the staff at the zoo have enjoyed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We now want to work on getting both mum and cub on show so our guests can also enjoy this amazing news.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A zoo has revealed the name and sex of a rare leopard cub born in captivity. Dartmoor Zoo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-342777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}