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Pavel Burov

In Saint Petersburg, it’s raining and the manuls are out

A photograph of Sven in Leningrad zoo
Sven in Leningrad zoo,

The wisest, wisest one. The cat doesn’t like rain.

A photograph of Shu in Leningrad zoo
Shu in Leningrad zoo,

Just like his dad. He doesn’t fuss either.

The kittens are actively tormenting Pepe. Pepe deftly runs away from them.
I haven’t seen Namiku yet.

Today is a good day. I won’t break a sweat.

upd. Namika went out for a walk a lot. And Shu woke up. And Sven came out.

A photograph of Namika in Leningrad zoo
Namika in Leningrad zoo,
A photograph of Shu in Leningrad zoo
Shu in Leningrad zoo,
A photograph of Sven in Leningrad zoo
Sven in Leningrad zoo,

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  1. Pavel Burov
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  4. l83
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    Pavel Burov, Namika’s expression in the middle photo is like this:

    - Timokha wrote in the manul chat that every weekend some guy comes and keeps taking pictures of him—has he really made it to us too?)
    Third photo:
    - all right, I’ll pose a little; maybe he has a return ticket in his pocket for today

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  12. mnamosyna (rachael)
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    After several hours of admiring Shu, I only then noticed that he was posing with a quail. He completely hypnotized me)
    He’s so adorable, looking at us like that. I don’t even know how to put it more precisely. It was as if his childlike side tried to come back for a second)))

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    mnamosyna (rachael), Yes. If things are a bit chaotic in Novosibirsk — where are the fathers, where are the mothers and children, where are the grandmothers — it can be rather hard to make sense of it all. In St. Petersburg, though, everything is compact — 5 enclosures, all right next to each other!
    Right now in Novosibirsk there are 2 areas with manuls, and we run from one to the other. And in winter there’s also a third area, farther away from the first two — and you spend the whole day dashing between them, afraid you’ll miss the manuls coming out of their shelters)

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