Together with the park’s environmental education team, we held a lesson for children where we told the youngest residents of Kosh-Agach about their wild, fluffy neighbor — the manul.
During the lesson, the kids learned many interesting facts about the manul. Together we watched the cartoon “Children of Maana,” inspired by an Altai folk tale, and also practiced drawing a fluffy rock! 😁
Let's enjoy new photos of the young beauty Ariunaa, who moved to Brno Zoo from La Torbiera in January 2026 😻
These wonderful photos were kindly shared with us by photographer Jan Máca 🙌🏻
Ariunaa and her fluffy groom:
We and the golden-eyed Achi son of Karaganda wish all our beautiful subscribers a happy International Women's Day! 🌷
May you always be surrounded by love, tenderness, and all the fluffy things that make your soul sing!
May happiness always walk beside you on soft manul paws!
Spring! Girls! Manuls! Hooray! 😄😻
Many hugs!
Traditionally, the mating season for manuls at the Novosibirsk Zoo begins in February and continues through April.
This year, the handsome George, the eldest son of Zelenogorsk, is once again courting the beautiful Mia — a well-known and beloved fluffy lady of sorrow with an alluring look… oh, what a character she has! 😈
It’s not easy for George to find the key to Mia’s heart this year, and even harder to ask her out. He might even end up stuck in a tree again! 😅🙈
Please, support George in the comments!
George, you are the best! 😺
Last November, two Pallas’s cats arrived at Red River Zoo:
💙 Midas, a handsome five-year-old male from Birmingham Z.oo;
🩷 Meera, a fluffy young lady from Columbus Zoo.
Sadly, the wonderful Eva, who had lived here since 2016 and brought many minuls into the world, has passed away. She was 9 years old.
Thus, Red River Zoo is now home to three manuls: Yeshi, Midas, and Mira. 🐾
⚡️ Hooray! A new zoo has appeared on the manul map: The Lakeland Wildlife Oasis in the United Kingdom!
At the end of last week, three brothers arrived there from Port Lympne: Altai, Khutga, and Bat-Erdene.
Let’s take a look on the photos of these young fluffy gentlemen(ul) shared by the Lakeland Wildlife Oasis:
We wish the brothers an easy adaptation and lots of manul happiness in their new home!
Manulovers — is anyone planning to visit the fluffy trio in their new home?
So the manul journeys continue!
Let’s see who went where:
💛 The fluffy señorita Ariunaa from La Torbiera has moved to Zoo Brno in the Czech Republic. There are now two Pallas’s cats living there!
We wonder if Ariunaa has already met the grumpy Siberian handsome Muztau🥰
🤎 The nordic fluffy valkyria Duchess from Nordens Ark has traveled to meet her fiancé Akiko in England, at Edinburgh Zoo.
Enjoy the new photos of Altai that Trégomeur Zoo has shared with us!
Today, after a month in quarantine (a standard procedure when an animal transfers from one zoo to another), our fluffy beauty Pepe has moved into her exhibition enclosure! 🔥
Her new home is the enclosure where Shu was born and lived in his childhood (he has now moved to a next door, newly built enclosure).
For the first while, the fluffy newlyweds will be switching places so they can get to know each other from a distance first ☺️
We wish lovely Pepe an easy and gentle adaptation to her new home and the most purr-fect introduction to her precious groom, Shu Svenovich the Pallas's cat!
Today in the #HistoricalManulization series – the fluffy gentlemanul Baryshnikov! 🤩
Yes, that was truly his name — this little manul was born and lived at the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States. He was named after the outstanding Soviet and American ballet dancer and actor Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov, who gained particular popularity in America after his role in the popular TV series Sex and the City.
Baryshnikov the Pallas's cat was hand-raised by the zoo staff. Sadly, he passed away in 2008 at around 3 years of age.
And what’s interesting about his pedigree?
Manul love curators, thank you all for participating!
More than 100 people took part in the riddle, and a bit more than 40 of them gave the correct answer! 👏🏻
Among those who answered correctly, we used a randomizer to select three winners:
‼️ Ta-daaa! Here’s the answer to yesterday’s riddle:
💘 Bandit’s fluffy bride is the beautiful Brusnichka (Grustinka)!
Dear manul curators, thank you all so much for joining in — it was such a vibe!
🎁 We’ll announce the three lucky winners on the website tomorrow morning — don’t miss it! 🙌🏻 (We need a little time to process all the comments.)
⚡️ P.S. Looks like another riddle is already on the way! Achi has joined the breeding season too, and his bride is just as mysterious — hiding in her little house and refusing to show herself! 😅👻
Sad news came from Xining Zoo: On February 9, the amazing Sun Sanlang (Dunzi), son of the legendary Sun Simiao and Sun Xiaomei, passed away 💔
The zoo announced this in a notice posted on the Pallas's cat enclosure:
The mating season for Pallas's cats is in full swing—it's time to find out:
❓ So who is she, the Bandit's mysterious bride ❓
🤓 We invite you to feel like a manul curator and "find" a bride for him!
Here are the options:
Yesterday, the doors between some of the enclosures were opened — which means the mating season for manuls has begun.
Here are the pairs we spotted:
🔥 Handsome Bandit has become a groom for the very first time in his life!
We haven’t caught a glimpse of his bride yet, but one thing is clear: the boy is astounded!
A whole new territory packed with unfamiliar scents (a quick reminder: Bandit has never moved from his enclosure since kittenhood) is hitting him with a whole storm of feelings. So much new, unknown, and most importantly – unmarked!🤭
For several days we couldn’t bring ourselves to write a single line about this. Words just wouldn’t come — there were none to express how much Zelenogorsk and Karaganda meant not only to the global manul community, but to us personally.
Manuel has active outlook on life and pure charisma!
During our visit, he worked for the whole manul family😅
While his lovely Ula was sleeping like a fluffy rock on the very top shelf, and their teenage kittens (in their own separate enclosure) were copying mom, Manuel was full of energy and endlessly busy!
Several times a day he diligently patrolled not only his own territory but Ula’s as well! He perched on different shelves, carefully surveyed the surroundings, sharpened his claws, groomed himself with great dedication, did a proper stretch (hey, gotta keep in shape😅), and generously welcomed visitors with grumpy gazes — with that unmistakable “Budapest-style” melancholy — and sometimes even with menacing whisker twitches!
Manuel is incredibly responsible: he personally supervised the air conditioner installation for the summer season in their house together!👏🏻
⚡️Krasnoyarsk! Tomorrow on Radio Russia Krasnoyarsk, we'll be talking live about Pallas's cats, Manulization, and, of course, the star of the Krasnoyarsk Zoo – Boris!
🕢 Time: ~ 7:30 a.m. Krasnoyarsk time (GMT +7)
🏄 Wave: FM 94.5
🗣You can listen online here:
https://radio-online.ru/5397-radio-rossii-krasnojarsk-945-fm.html
We came to visit Timofey at the Moscow Zoo 😻
And here’s a fluffy hello from every angle!
🐾A long-awaited female Pallas's cat named Pepe has arrived in St. Petersburg. She's five years old and came to us from the Barnaul Zoo for temporary care as part of the EARAZA conservation and breeding program for Pallas's cats. We are the second zoo in Russia to host a pair that has produced offspring. Only six zoos in our country have representatives of this fascinating, but challenging, species.
Pepe made it to the Leningrad Zoo without any problems. She will spend a month in quarantine. This is a standard procedure for newly arrived animals, allowing them to be assessed and tested, as well as to allow time for them to adapt to their new surroundings without unnecessary stress.😌
We'll definitely let you know as soon as Pepe goes on display. Follow us on social media!🥰
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