{"id":727873,"date":"2026-08-05T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:48:10","slug":"scottish-public-name-double-trouble-snow-leopard-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727873\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish public name &#8216;double trouble&#8217; snow leopard cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of snow leopard cubs at Highland Wildlife Park have been named, following a public vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) invited animal lovers to choose from three pairs of names inspired by the landscapes of the snow leopard\u2019s natural range in Central and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>After thousands of votes across the charity\u2019s social media channels, Indra and Tama emerged as the clear favourites for the \u201cdouble trouble\u201d pair.<\/p>\n<p>Indra is a male Nepalese name and Tama is one of the rivers that make up the Koshi river system.<\/p>\n<p>Mum Pari gave birth to the twins in May and they recently had their first health check, which confirmed they are a boy and a girl.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have received a clean bill of health and are continuing to thrive alongside Pari at the park.<\/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":"A pair of snow leopard cubs at Highland Wildlife Park have been named, following a public vote. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-727873","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\/727873","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=727873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}