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Charts and Family Trees: A Website Update! 🌳

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Dear friends, we have another big update for you! 🎉

Institution pages have become even more exciting: we've added three interactive visualizations to help you explore Pallas's cat family trees and trace the history of manuls at each zoo!

🌳 Family Tree is a large diagram showing the zoo's entire Pallas's cat population, inviting you to become a true detective of manul lives and family histories! Discover how manuls are related, where and when each manul was born, and how they traveled between zoos.

A photograph of a Pallas's cat

🪵 Tree Rings visualises the zoo's history as a cross-section of a tree! The more manuls lived at the zoo in a given year, the darker and wider the corresponding ring. You can easily see how the population changed over time, and clicking on any ring reveals all the fluffy residents who lived there that year.

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Notifications and follows: what’s new on the website!

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Dear friends, we have a major update on the website that we’ve been working on for a very long time: notifications and subscriptions have arrived on Manulization! 🎉

A photograph of a Pallas's cat

The website will now show you when someone has replied to your comment or liked it, when your favorite manul has new photos and news, when minuls are born at a zoo, or when something important happens in the lives of manuls and our community! 

In short, keeping up with manul affairs has become much easier! Here’s how it all works 👇

👤 All notifications are by your avatar

Click your avatar in the website header — it is now home to the notification center.

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♀️♂️ Adele's minuls: The Boys-Girls Quiz Answers!

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Dear manul-detectives, it’s time to find out who’s who!

Here’s the answer:

♂ #1 and #3 — boys,

♀ #2 — a girl.

A photograph of Son of Adele b.2026 Ⅰ, Daughter of Adele b.2026 Ⅱ, and Son of Adele b.2026 Ⅲ in Novosibirsk Zoo

It seems that one of the biggest mysteries for everyone was #2: some thought this was a masculine macho minul, while others saw a serious little bandit girl behind that adorable wide-eyed face, and they were right! 😈

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The fourth minul gender party of 2026!

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❓ Guess the genders of Adele's kittens!

Adele’s kittens are all together 🥰

Which means the fourth and final gender party of 2026 is officially open!

🧐 Dear manul-detectives, take a very close look at these fluffy little faces!
❓ Which one of this fluffy trio of Adelings do you think is the girl (1), and which two are the boys (2)?

A photograph of Son of Adele b.2026 Ⅰ, Daughter of Adele b.2026 Ⅱ, and Son of Adele b.2026 Ⅲ in Novosibirsk Zoo

Share your guesses in the comments!

❕We’ll reveal the correct answer tomorrow. Don’t miss it!

Seven minuls caught on a trail camera in Tuva, Russia! 😻

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An incredible luck smiled on the scientists and staff of the Ubsunur Hollow Nature Reserve in the Republic of Tuva: a trail camera installed near a rocky den took a video of seven manul kittens at once!

A video of a Pallas's cat,
Author: Межрегиональная Ассоциация «Центр по изучению и сохранению снежного барса „Ирбис““, uploaded by Manulizationverified_filled

At the time of filming, the little ones were no more than three months old, and were playing with each other.

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Farewell, beautiful Penelope! 🌈

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Friends, sad news from Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens: beautiful Penelope, sister of Pazzo and mother of Namuu, has passed away.

Penelope lived a long manul life—she was 10 years old.

Penny was absolutely delightful and utterly inimitable, with her extravagantly tousled fur and her signature especially grumpy and cross, yet incredibly charming, squinting gaze. That is how this amazing and unique manulady will remain in our memories and hearts 🧡

A photograph of Penelope in Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens

Farewell, Penny! May you have a sunny, boundless heavenly steppe and good hunting, beautiful manul!🙏

🌐 A new zoo on the world manul map!

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New Zoo & Adventure Park, USA

Friends, a new zoo has appeared on the manul map: New Zoo & Adventure Park, in the USA!

At the end of August Makari moved here from his native Binghamton Zoo.

On its social media, the zoo says that for now, their long-awaited new grumpy resident is living off exhibit so he can get acquainted and become friends with his new zookeeper, Jessica 🧡 To help with this, he is undergoing various training sessions—and Makari is making great progress!

Makariy is learning to trust his new friend Jessica and take treats from tongs 🍗

Soon, Makari will move into his exhibit enclosure and live next door to giraffes (wow, it seems manuls have never had such tall neighbors before!😄)

We wish the handsome Makari manul happiness in his new home!

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A tail dance performed by young daughter of Eve 😁

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This tail twitching “dance” can accompany different manul emotional reactions like: excitement, alertness, or irritation, for example when they see something interesting or potentially dangerous.

The tail can also twitch during intense concentration while hunting or watching prey 👀

Do you want to feed a manul?

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It's now possible at Elmwood Park Zoo!

Manulovers, here’s a unique opportunity! 😻

Around early September, Elmwood Park Zoo in the United States launched a new manul encounter called Pallas’s Playdate.

A photograph of Reza in Elmwood Park Zoo
Author: Keeper Janine, uploaded by Анна

The exact launch date does not appear to have been announced separately, but the program was already available to visitors by September 3.

During the 15-minute encounter, guests can get very close to Reza and Kasper and feed them some of their favorite treats through the mesh. A keeper stays with the guests throughout the experience answering questions and telling them more about Reza and Kasper.

Each encounter is available for up to two guests aged 12 and over.

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How can you tell Shu, Pepe, Sven, and Namika apart?! A cheat sheet from the Leningrad Zoo.

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Who is looking at you from a high shelf, who is peeking out of a little burrow-house, and who is lying in a hammock — Shu, Pepe, Sven, or Namika? For everyone who is still getting mixed up among the fluffy residents of the Leningrad Zoo, the staff have prepared a handy cheat sheet in their Telegram channel! 🤓

In special cards, the zoo explained which features of their appearance can be used to tell the four adult Pallas's cats apart.

Let’s study the cards, level up our manul-spotting skills, and learn to identify the whole fluffy quartet without a single mistake! 😻

P.S. We’re really looking forward to the same kind of cards for identifying Shu and Pepe’s kittens! 😉

♀️♂️Eve's minuls: The Boys-Girls Quiz Answers!

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Dear manul-detectives, it’s time to show our cards and find out who is who!

Here’s the answer to our little mystery: ♀️ 1, 2, 5 — girls, ♂️ 3, 4 — boys.

A photograph of Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅰ, Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅱ, Kitten of Eve b.2026  Ⅲ, Kitten of Eve b.2026   Ⅳ, and Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅴ in Novosibirsk Zoo

Fascinating that most of our you, manul-detectives, correctly spotted that #4 is a boy — and yep, he is growing into one very masculine minul indeed! 😁😼
We think he is the leader of the whole five.

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The third minul gender party of 2026!

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❓ Guess the genders of Eve's kittens!

Eve’s magnificent five are all together 🥰

😎 Dear manul-detectives, it’s your time to shine!

❓Who do you think are the boys, and who are the girls?

A photograph of Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅰ, Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅱ, Kitten of Eve b.2026  Ⅲ, Kitten of Eve b.2026   Ⅳ, and Kitten of Eve b.2026 Ⅴ in Novosibirsk Zoo

As usual, mamanul Eve likes to make things a little more challenging, so she hasn’t revealed how many of each there are.

But she did meow us this little hint:

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Shafran is on exhibit again at Ueno Zoo!

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Starting today, September 1, Safran, the daughter of Primula and Klyon, will be on exhibit in the enclosure where Primula used to live.

A photograph of Shafran in Ueno Zoological Gardens
Shafran in Ueno Zoological Gardens,
Author: Shigeo

On August 30, Primula left her exhibit enclosure and is now living off-exhibit while undergoing further examinations and treatment.

Today, Japanese manulovers have already had the chance to admire grown-up Safran. minl_ponchan shared a fresh photo of Safran on X — just look at what an adorable big-eyed lady she is! 😻

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Goodbye, Jochi! 🌈

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Friends, sad news from the Howletts Wild Animal Park, UK: the wonderful manul Jochi, the youngest son of the legendary Temuchin, has passed away 💔

Jochi lived a long manul life — he was 10 years old.

A photograph of Jochi in Howletts Wild Animal Park
Jochi in Howletts Wild Animal Park,

We dreamed of meeting him in purrrson and were head over heels in love with his charming and funny snub-nosed, serious little face and his expressive, grumpy gaze of a steppe warrior. Now his photos will remain with all of us as a keepsake. 🙏

Jochi, you grumpy fluffy gentlecat, we adore you and will always remember you ❤️

May you have an endless, sunlit heavenly steppe, at your disposal dear manul! May your teeth stay sharp and strong, and may the hunt for rats and pikas always be successful!

A new zoo on the manul map! 🌐

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Manuladies Kharaa and Tuya have moved.

⚡️ Friends, a new zoo has appeared on the manul map: Drayton Manor Zoo, in the United Kingdom!

Tuya and Kharaa, the elder daughters of Namuu and Atlan, born at Port Lympne in 2025, moved there at the end of May 2026.

A photograph of Kharaa in Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
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