Oklahoma Town Zoo is delighted to announce the new beginning of an extraordinary clouded leopard kitten. Following an roughly 90-day gestation length, the OKC Zoo’s feminine clouded leopard, Rukai, gave beginning to a male kitten on Tuesday, July 18, on the Zoo’s Cat Woodland habitat.
The OKC Zoo is a proud player within the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA's) Species Survival Plan® (SSP) for clouded leopards. As a result of that is this kind of vital beginning and the primary beginning of 2023 for this inclined species, the SSP really useful the Zoo’s animal care mavens hand-rear the kitten to verify he flourishes. Right away following the kitten’s beginning, the Zoo’s carnivore caretakers stepped in and started offering round the clock handle this little cloudie.
Caretakers document the kitten is wholesome and doing the whole lot a new child will have to be doing – consuming, snoozing and rising! Because the kitten continues to develop robust, he’s going to be making his solution to some other AZA-accredited facility to be some other essential ambassador for his species and with a bit of luck have little cloudies of his personal in the future!
📷: Dr. Jennifer D.
