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Only 30 left in the wild - but here's two made in Kent

By: KentOnline reporter multimediadesk@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 08:41, 04 December 2008

Meet Argun and Anuy - the new amur leopards

They are one of the rarest of all big cat species - but now there are two more amur leopards after the birth of this pair of cubs at a Kent wildlife centre.

Out of just 30 left in the wild, it is thought there are only seven females.

One of the cubs at the Wildlife Foundation in Smarden, near Ashford, is definitely male, and excited staff and volunteers at the big cat breeding centre think – and hope – the other is female.

The cubs are now eight-weeks-old and have been named Argun and Anuy after tributaries of the Amur River, which forms part of the border between China and Russia.


~ Watch video footage of the cubs at kentishexpress.co.uk >>>


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