Snow Baby Leopard has been named Gobi

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:36:00 +0000

Over 35,000 participated in the online voting to give the Woodland Park Zoo’s 11 week old baby snow leopard his new name, Gobi (after the Mongolian Desert). Gobi’s twin sister was previously named Batu, which means honest in Mongolian. read original story

The baby snow leopards have grown a great deal since I posted their last video. They’re still totally adorable and look at the size of the paws already!

Check out their latest pics in the Zoo’s photo gallery

Baby Snow Leopard needs a name

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:33:54 +0000

Two endangered snow leopard cubs (a male and a female) were born on May 25th, 2009 at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, WA. The female cub has been named Batu, which means firm, hard and honest in Mongolian.

The zoo is conducting a poll to name the male cub. Voting is open now, you can go to the zoo Web site and pick from one of four names:

- Gobi (go-bee), for the Gobi Desert in Mongolia
- Boke (sounds like poke), which means strong
- Irbis (ear-biss), which means leopard
- Vachir (voch-err), which means thunderbolt

Voting ends at midnight on Aug. 12. The winning name will be announced with the cubs make their public debut on August 15.
Click here to go to the Zoo website.

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Snow Baby Leopard has been named Gobi

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