Banham Zoo Triplets for Enif!

Nisha

Nisha

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3 beautiful snow leopards cubs have been born at the zoo to proud, first time parents Enif and Rocky! Enif is taking care of the cubs and is doing very well for a first time mum. Enif was an import from Japan making her unrepresented in Europe and cubs even more valuable to the breeding program. Not quite sure when she had them but they are still off show with her at this point so can't be more than a few weeks old.

After the death of the female tiger a few weeks ago this is just the good news that the zoo needed! :D
 
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Nisha said:
3 beautiful snow leopards cubs have been born at the zoo to proud, first time parents Enif and Rocky! Enif is taking care of the cubs and is doing very well for a first time mum. Enif was an import from Japan making her unrepresented in Europe and cubs even more valuable to the breeding program. Not quite sure when she had them but they are still off show with her at this point so can't be more than a few weeks old.
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Is Enif related to the one of the new ones at twycross as i know one of them came from tokyo?
 
josh_08 said:
Is Enif related to the one of the new ones at twycross as i know one of them came from tokyo?
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Banham's website says that Enif was from Tokyo Zoo. The Japanese male at Twycross came from Tama Zoo. Don't know if they are the same zoo under two different names?(like Arnhem and Burgers in the Netherlands) but if they aren't the same zoo there's a good chance that the leopards would have some relation as Japan is a fairly small country.
 
Nisha said:
Banham's website says that Enif was from Tokyo Zoo. The Japanese male at Twycross came from Tama Zoo. Don't know if they are the same zoo under two different names?(like Arnhem and Burgers in the Netherlands) but if they aren't the same zoo there's a good chance that the leopards would have some relation as Japan is a fairly small country.
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The two collections are indeed one and the same and the male at Twycross has the same sire as the Banham female, both animals are unrelated to the rest of the EEP and are ranked top 5 in terms of their mean kinship within the European breeding programme.
 
All three cubs are still progressing well. They are due to get there first vet check and vaccines next week and will also be sexed during the same procedure. Lots of pictures of them via the CCTV camera in there den on the zoo's facebook page :)

I predict they will be 2:1
 
Nisha said:
All three cubs are still progressing well. They are due to get there first vet check and vaccines next week and will also be sexed during the same procedure. Lots of pictures of them via the CCTV camera in there den on the zoo's facebook page :)

I predict they will be 2:1
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Good news!
 
The zoo has posted edited footage on Youtube of Enif giving birth plus a little bit of footage taken a few weeks ago of the cubs at around 7-8 weeks of age, all taken off the CCTV cameras.

 
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The most successful of the three is Rebecca (aka Dari) at Krefeld. She and Patan (b.2010, Krefeld) have had three litters:
(1) 13 June 2013 - 1.0
Schan, who went to HWP, Kingussie in Scotland (as 'Chan'). He fathered 2 cubs, both female, before he was put down in Sep 2020. His offspring are now at Northumberland Country Zoo near Morpeth;
(2) 4 May 2015 - 0.2
Last time I was able to verify her whereabouts Yala was at Amneville in France. But I know that Nefeli is at Linton Zoo near Cambridge;
(3) 9 April 2017 - 1.2
Male Nurek is at Wroclaw in Poland and father to the litter born there on 26 May last year (1.1). Of the two females, Sardari went to Maglio in Switzerland and Juma to Ahtari in Finland.

Ziva, the other female in Enif's triplet, went to Howletts (I want to call it a zoo, but apparently it isn't!), and has led a quiet and cubless life.

The only male, Margaash, moved to Dudley Zoo, fathered three litters and had a more eventful and shorter life than his sisters - he was shot after escaping his enclosure in Oct 2018. The only surviving offspring of his, a male called Makalu, was sent to Darjeeling in June 2016. Dudley sponsored him for five years promising to provide updates during that time (there weren't any).
 
WanderingDragon said:
The most successful of the three is Rebecca (aka Dari) at Krefeld. She and Patan (b.2010, Krefeld) have had three litters:
(1) 13 June 2013 - 1.0
Schan, who went to HWP, Kingussie in Scotland (as 'Chan'). He fathered 2 cubs, both female, before he was put down in Sep 2020. His offspring are now at Northumberland Country Zoo near Morpeth;
(2) 4 May 2015 - 0.2
Last time I was able to verify her whereabouts Yala was at Amneville in France. But I know that Nefeli is at Linton Zoo near Cambridge;
(3) 9 April 2017 - 1.2
Male Nurek is at Wroclaw in Poland and father to the litter born there on 26 May last year (1.1). Of the two females, Sardari went to Maglio in Switzerland and Juma to Ahtari in Finland.

Ziva, the other female in Enif's triplet, went to Howletts (I want to call it a zoo, but apparently it isn't!), and has led a quiet and cubless life.

The only male, Margaash, moved to Dudley Zoo, fathered three litters and had a more eventful and shorter life than his sisters - he was shot after escaping his enclosure in Oct 2018. The only surviving offspring of his, a male called Makalu, was sent to Darjeeling in June 2016. Dudley sponsored him for five years promising to provide updates during that time (there weren't any).
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This is so useful as I was trying to find the link between Enif and the girls now at Northumberland and from this discovered that Rebecca's name was changed.
Just wondering about Margaash's offspring, a male called Makalu, sent to Darjeeling. The male currently at Dudley is called Makalu so did he come back from Darjeeling then or is this just a coincidence?
 
DebbieP said:
This is so useful as I was trying to find the link between Enif and the girls now at Northumberland and from this discovered that Rebecca's name was changed.
Just wondering about Margaash's offspring, a male called Makalu, sent to Darjeeling. The male currently at Dudley is called Makalu so did he come back from Darjeeling then or is this just a coincidence?
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The Makalu sent to Darjeeling didn’t return to Dudley - they received a different male named Makalu who arrived from Jardin des Plantes in 2020.
 
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