{"id":723141,"date":"2026-08-01T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723141\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:54:14","slug":"vote-for-the-names-of-twin-snow-leopard-cubs-in-the-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723141\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the names of twin snow leopard cubs in the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public are being invited to help choose the names of twin snow leopard cubs born at Highland Wildlife Park.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Pari gave birth to the twins in May and recently had their first health check, which confirmed they are a boy and a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is inviting animal lovers to vote for one of three pairs of names inspired by the landscapes of their natural habitat in Central and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public can vote for Indra and Tama, Tamur and Nura, or Annapurna and Tara.<\/p>\n<p>Indra\u00a0is a male Nepalese name,\u00a0and Tama\u00a0is one of the rivers that make up the Koshi river system.\u00a0Tamur\u00a0is a river in eastern Nepal, and Nura\u00a0means light.\u00a0Annapurna\u00a0is a mountain in north-central Nepal, and Tara\u00a0is Sanskrit for star.<\/p>\n<p>Votes can be cast on Highland Wildlife Park\u2019s Facebook and Instagram pages.<\/p>\n<p>Voting closes on the evening of Monday, August 3, with the winning names due to be announced on August 4.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The public are being invited to help choose the names of twin snow leopard cubs born at Highland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-723141","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\/723141","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=723141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}