{"id":645381,"date":"2026-06-18T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645381\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:51:09","slug":"rare-snow-leopard-cubs-born-at-wildlife-park-in-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645381\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare snow leopard cubs born at wildlife park in Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Snow leopard cubs usually do not open their eyes until about a week after birth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first two months they rely solely on their mother&#8217;s milk, eating meat as they grow stronger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The keepers have Pari and the litter living apart from Koshi until they reach an age where they will be ready to meet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said this behaviour was natural, with the mother taking responsibility for raising the offspring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lucy Petrie said &#8220;While the cuteness is an excellent reason to be excited, it&#8217;s even better for the snow leopard population, which is decreasing in the wild. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These new faces are going to be great ambassadors for their wild relatives, helping raise awareness of the challenges this beautiful and enigmatic species face every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snow leopard cubs usually do not open their eyes until about a week after birth. For the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-645381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}