{"id":785630,"date":"2026-09-28T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:26:09","slug":"snow-leopard-cub-with-incurable-bone-condition-put-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785630\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow leopard cub with incurable bone condition put to sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of two rare snow leopard cubs born at the Highland Wildlife Park earlier this year has been euthanised after it was found to have an incurable bone condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The twins were born in June to first-time mum Pari and her mate Koshi, and were the first litter at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) site at Kincraig in four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keepers had spotted the male cub, Indra, was limping and extensive medical examinations detected the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park said it would have had a &#8220;significant impact&#8221; on his quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His sister, Tama, is expected to remain with her mother for up to two years before being moved to another enclosure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of two rare snow leopard cubs born at the Highland Wildlife Park earlier this year has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-785630","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\/785630","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=785630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}