This Warsaw resident saw snow for the first time. “He looked up again and again.”
Thursday morning greeted Warsaw residents with a truly winter aura. She also welcomed the animals of the Warsaw Zoo, including a snow leopard.
It has been snowing heavily in Warsaw since Thursday morning. White fluff covered the streets and buildings. He also welcomed the inhabitants of the Warsaw Zoo.
The snow leopard saw snow
The Pamir snow leopard, which was born in a garden in the capital on June 2 this year, became interested in the winter weather.
“Today Warsaw woke up under a white blanket. Our little Pamir snow leopard saw snow for the first time! The little one was obviously interested in the down that fell from the sky and beautifully covered his run. He eagerly walked outside and looked up from time to time, peeking at new snowflakes” – this is how zoo employees described the panther’s first contact with the winter weather.
Needless to say, snow leopards love such harsh conditions, and in the wild they live at high altitudes, in low temperatures and in the snow surrounding them. The zoo recalled that their good ability to camouflage themselves in white gave them the nickname “Mountain Spirit”. It also invited people to visit his pupils.
Irbis, an endangered species
Pamir’s mother, Suri, came to Poland from the Leipzig Zoo, and his father, Jamir, from Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens in the UK. After birth, Pamir had to grow up before he could go out on the catwalk. In the wild, snow leopards start following their mother at the age of about three months.
The snow leopard is an endangered species. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), there are currently approximately 4,000 snow leopards living in its natural environment: the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau and the Mountains of Central Asia, and approximately 400 in zoos around the world.
October 23 is International Snow Leopard Day, which is intended to remind the world that these beautiful, predatory animals are at risk of extinction. The Wrocław ZOO also conducts conservation breeding of snow leopards. Twelve representatives of this species live there on a daily basis.
“Our panthers benefit from the cooler temperature: they have longer winter fur and are now on the runway more often than in summer, where they not only lie down, but also play. The hit of autumn are pumpkins that can be cut into pieces with their claws,” Paweł Sroka, head of the Department of Predatory Mammals at the Wrocław Zoo, recently said about them.
