How can you tell Shu, Pepe, Sven, and Namika apart?! A cheat sheet from the Leningrad Zoo.
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! 😉
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Great diagrams — I used to look only at the spots, but it turns out the shape of the nose says a lot too!
Pfft, that’s easy enough) We don’t have as many adult manuls as in Novosibirsk, and you can tell from the layout of the enclosures too (though people who rarely go to the zoo wouldn’t know that, only Sven is labeled there).
For children, a cheat sheet like this is really very much needed..
Such a great job, Leningrad Zoo! 😻 Really cool diagrams! 👍🏼
I don’t know what there is to tell apart — they’re all completely different. Fine, you can mix up Pepesha and Timosha sometimes, but all those four....they’re absolutely nothing alike. It’s like confusing Lastochka with Zelenogorsk or Zhora with Lastochka.