Central Park Zoo Snow Leopards For New Exhibit to Come From Bronx

Bronx snow leopards get a new home in Central Park Zoo

This was curious to me as ISIS has been listing CPZ with s. leopards for months now and I thought I read an article saying they would be coming from elsewhere. Makes sense to get them from Bronx though.

I'll be flying home almost solely for this opening so I'll let everyone know how it goes/is. World knows we could use more good snow leopard exhibits!

 

There will be 3 snow leopards in the new exhibit, which opens this week:

Central Park Zoo to add snow leopard exhibition - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

 

Here is a video of the snow leopards in their new exhibit:

 

Great footage of the big cats in their naturalistic environment. However, it is quite difficult to judge the size and overall quality of the exhibit, and so I look forward to the first batch of photos from a fellow ZooChatter!

 

The new snow leopard exhibit apparently cost $10.6 million, and this long article has a number of details on the cats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/nyregion/13snow.html?ref=arts

 

Looks good:

Hot and cold cats at new snow leopard exhibit Central Park Zoo Saving snow leopards

 

Looks like a very good exhibit based on the video and the pictures from the nytimes.