{"id":61673,"date":"2026-09-28T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/snow-leopard-cub-with-incurable-bone-condition-put-to-sleep\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:54:54","slug":"snow-leopard-cub-with-incurable-bone-condition-put-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/snow-leopard-cub-with-incurable-bone-condition-put-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow leopard cub with incurable bone condition put to sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">One of two rare snow leopard cubs born at the Highland Wildlife Park earlier this year has been euthanised after it was found to have an incurable bone condition.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The twins were born in June to first-time mum Pari and her mate Koshi, and were the first litter at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) site at Kincraig in four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keepers had spotted the male cub, Indra, was limping and extensive medical examinations detected the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park said it would have had a &#8220;significant impact&#8221; on his quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His sister, Tama, is expected to remain with her mother for up to two years before being moved to another enclosure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cmd943wgpq9lo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of two rare snow leopard cubs born at the Highland Wildlife Park earlier this year has been euthanised after it was found to have an incurable bone condition. The twins were born in June to first-time mum Pari and her mate Koshi, and were the first litter at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[7755,4233,5995,10400,1369,526,1822,857],"class_list":["post-61673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-bone","tag-condition","tag-cub","tag-incurable","tag-leopard","tag-put","tag-sleep","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61675,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61673\/revisions\/61675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}