Pallas's cats that lived at Nogeyama Zoo in the past

At present, Figa lives at Nogeyama Zoo, but

there is a post like this on the zoo's former official social media account.

It seems that Nogeyama Zoo also kept Pallas's cats in 1987, but since it was so long ago, even searching online reveals little more than that they were "brought in from Shanghai."

Perhaps because of this, after today's animal guide session with Figa, a regular visitor asked the keeper in charge about the Pallas's cats that had lived there in the past.

Then the keeper shared this interesting information:

In fact, Nogeyama Zoo had kept four Pallas's cats in the past. They first brought in two, but they died soon afterward; then they brought in another two, but these too died shortly afterward.

These four were kept for only a very short period, and perhaps because little information remains at the zoo, it is apparently unknown whether they even had names.

This seems not to have been a very positive experience for Nogeyama Zoo, and when they brought Figa in this time, staff members who knew about what had happened back then reportedly did not react very positively.

Figa is apparently the zoo's fifth Pallas's cat... but since the periods during which it kept Pallas's cats in the past were so brief, Figa is, in effect, currently treated as its No. 1 Pallas's cat.