Calgary Zoo welcomes female snow leopard
Posted Jan 29, 2016 6:50 am.
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There’s a new resident at the Calgary Zoo.
Officials have welcomed a snow leopard named Leika who travelled from a zoo in Austria.
She’s joining the male leopard, Karesh in the Eurasian Gateway.
There are up to 6,500 of the animals in the high mountain regions of Central Asia and they are listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List.
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