Snow leopards at the Philadelphia Zoo
Categories: Photography, Photographs, Philadelphia Zoo
A bit of cuteness to ease you into your week… (Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions.) The Philadelphia Zoo has 3 young male snow leopards. The snow leopards are part of the Big Cat Falls exhibit which re-opened new and improved last spring. They came to Philadelphia from the Cleveland Zoo and the Denver Zoo.They are, in fact, pretty darned cute. Yes, these guys were napping in the middle of the day but at least they have the excuse that they’re nocturnal.
They are pretty darned irresistible, aren’t they? They are asleep on top of their rock wall which even has a waterfall. Yes, the one has his tail barely dipping into the top of the waterfall. These guys are waiting for some winter weather to come to Philadelphia so that they can make good use of their fur for warmth and camouflage. And a lot of snow - they are clearly looking to use those big feet on some serious snow drifts!
(When am I going to get my winter? Maybe I should nap more while I’m waiting…)
Hopefully these very friendly cats haven’t caused too much cuteness overload!
And tomorrow I’ll have to figure out why the formatting on these posts don’t like multiple images or images at the end of the post. HTML is not behaving as nicely as I’d like it to. New blog, new technical incantations and hoops to choreograph.
tags: big cats, philadelphia zoo, photographs, photography, snow leopard, zoo
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:27 am
They are just fantastic. I was just up in Philly this past week and really wanted to get to the Philadelphia Zoo. Just didn’t work out. Not enough time! And now? Now, I see your photos and I’m even more bummed out I didn’t make it! lol ~
Very nice photos.
~ janson