Aug 1, 2018
Two Amur leopard cubs have been born at the Moscow zoo
“Russian border guards found Nikolay, known under the number Leo 80M, near the Chinese border in 2015, within the territory of the Land of the Leopard National Park, when he was still a cub. In 2016, he was transferred to the Moscow zoo, where he was put together with the female Amur leopard called Acra.
"Nikolay started a new genetic line of leopards living in captivity. He is the first one to carry the "new blood" from the wild since 1956, when an official ban on capturing these felines was introduced. In the future, Leo 80M’s descendants may return to the forests of the Far East," the message notes.”