Adopt: Cakya-Muni

Species: Snow Leopard

Location: Howletts

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: 27/05/1990

About Cakya-Muni: Muni, as he is known to his keepers, is large for a Snow Leopard and is very grumpy and hisses at people. However he has proven to be a wonderful father.

Muni arrived from Mulhouse in France on 5 August 1992. He was originally paired with a female called Athene and they had two litters of cubs together. Unfortunately Athene developed cancer just after having the second litter, she was a caring mother and struggled through until the cubs were weaned before deteriorating rapidly. Muni took on the responsibility for raising the cubs. We had never seen a male snow leopard displaying such parental care before, he slept with them, brought them food and on occasion played with them. He is now paired with another female called Marta and has been moved to Howletts. Cakya Muni is very grumpy with his new partner. He does seem to be a bit more friendly towards the keepers when there is food around, but quickly returns to his grumpy self!

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