Kesha lived a long manul life — he was 11 years old. The cause of death was cancer.
We first met Innokenty in purrson in January of this year. Like a true son of Karaganda, he was secretive, elusive, and not happy to have visitors. Still, he allowed us to admire him for a few minutes: peeking out from behind the snowdrifts with his big, round emerald eyes, as if asking, “Who are you?” It was both beautiful and very funny! ☺️
🌸 April 20 is the birthday of the Lev's Fluffy Flower Five: Grusha, Iris, Lotus, Olive, and Primula have turned 9 years old!
Happy birthday, beautiful manuls! 🥳
To celebrate their birthday, we invite you to dive into a manul retrospective and enjoy rare childhood photos of today's birthday floofs with their mom Shar, along with a story about their early days featured in the Japanese book “Baby Animals: Animals of the Steppes and Mountains.”
Enjoy the reading, and may strong cute-o-meters be with you! 😄
For Pepe, these are her first cubs, so the staff are trying to disturb the family as little as possible: the kittens are still in the den, feeding on milk, and are only just beginning to open their eyes. Their sex is not yet known.
We wish the little ones to grow up strong, healthy, and curious, and Mama Pepe — calm, strength, and plenty of manul patience and wisdom!💛
She lived a very long manul life—she was nearly 16 years old 🙏🏻
Yus was born on May 4, 2010, at Ueno Zoo together with her brothers Naim and Doro to the manuls Bayar and Lalaa. She spent her entire life at her home zoo.
In recent years, the staff had noted age-related changes in Yus, though she maintained a good appetite and remained under close observation by specialists. In early March, her condition worsened, and after examination she was diagnosed with an esophageal disease. Despite veterinary care, sadly, Yus could not be saved.
Six kittens were born to Az and Nar on May 12, 2026.😸😸
Sadly, one was stillborn, but the remaining five are growing well and healthy.
Please see here for more details.
Yesterday evening, the cubs shyly but curiously peeked out of their house for the very first time! Lolo guided them and looked around, and at us, very attentively and very seriously 😁
Poznań Zoo reports that Bożenka the Pallas’s cat has been found! Hooray! 🎉
The zoo announces that Bożenka has returned — safe, healthy, and… looking as if she just came back from a weekend in the city rather than an unexpected escape 😼
According to reports, Bożenka was most likely roaming not far from the zoo grounds. She was spotted near Lake Malta and also around the Olszak Pond area.
The fluffy traveler was eventually found on the zoo grounds near the nocturnal animals pavilion, which is located not far from the zoo’s main entrance.
Most importantly — she is in good condition! 🙏
Bożenka will remain under observation until Monday to make sure everything is truly fine.
The first veterinary checkup was carried out the other day, and it turned out that the little one is male.
The zoo reports that he is healthy, developing well, and delighting the staff with his excellent appetite. With each passing day, he is becoming braver: he is coming out of their house more often and exploring the world around him with growing confidence.
Sarnai was standing in her favorite ball tray enrichment toy, completely unbothered, while Batu sneaked up behind her with decidedly mischievous intentions (photo taken on April 4, 2026)
Yesterday was the 10th birthday of Batu, the Pallas's cat at Prospect Park Zoo. I specifically drove to Brooklyn to visit the fluffy birthday star. But the biggest surprise was getting to see Batu's fluffy wife, Sarnai, who is rarely spotted — what a beautifully delicate-faced cat she is!
It all came together thanks to the zoo's Pallas's cat keeper, Ashley — whose name I actually learned from the HBO documentary series The Zoo, Season 3, Episode 9: "Grumpy Cat's New Digs," which introduced Batu and Sarnai and showcased the construction of their new exhibit. I was lucky enough to run into her while I was watching the cats, and I got to ask her about how both cats are doing. Their breeding season this year just wrapped up, and the breeding process has not been very successful. These two have been a breeding pair for many years. A few years ago they had a kitten that died young, and later a mass was found in Sarnai's uterus. Ashley mentioned that the zoo has already collected semen from Batu, so artificial insemination is an option if needed in the future — and it turns out the birthday boy Batu actually has high-quality Pallas's cat sperm!
After I explained why I'd come and mentioned that I had never once seen Sarnai, Ashley said she wasn't going to let me leave empty-handed today (so kind of her!), and went into the back den to fetch Sarnai's favorite enrichment items — a tray of balls and a tray of wooden blocks. And that's how we got the beautiful Sarnai finally venturing out into the outdoor exhibit.
The two cats seemed to get along quite well and appeared comfortable with each other. Sarnai is such a beautiful rose— Batu is a lucky guy! The last time I visited, Batu had been pacing the outdoor exhibit in what looked like repetitive patrol behavior, and I was worried he might be developing a stereotypy. But yesterday I observed a much wider variety of behaviors, so I think I was overthinking it — after all, Prospect Park Zoo is a zoo with decades of experience caring for Pallas's cats. He got his birthday rat treats, did a round of patrolling outside, and polished off his meal — the whole show, which I managed to miss entirely, unfortunately! Thank you for taking such a good care of them, Ashley!
Here's hoping both little cats stay healthy and live long lives! I'm already planning to come back next month for Sarnai's 10th birthday : )
Hooray, we have wild news from wild ginger Pallas’s cats! 🧡😃
Camera traps have gifted us several very valuable shots from Turkmenistan. Manuls were captured in two mountain ranges of the country: the Kopet Dag range, which stretches along the border with Iran, and the Kichi-Balkan range in northwestern Turkmenistan.
Map of Turkmenistan: the Kopet Dag range is marked with a red marker, and the Kichi-Balkan range with a blue one.
The video from Kichi-Balkan became the first camera-trap video record of a manul on this range — one of Turkmenistan’s new nature reserves!
Hooray! Today, Brno Zoo shared some wonderful news: the beautiful Italian Ariunaa and the fluffy Siberian bogatyr Muztau have welcomed manul kittens! 😻
Here is what the zoo wrote on their Facebook page (translated):
“WE HAVE MANUL CUBS! 😻
We’ve known this for some time, but only now can we share the joyful news with you. ❤️
The little ones are hiding together with their mother in a shelter in the exhibit, and what they need most right now is peace and quiet. If you are walking near their enclosure, please be considerate and do not disturb them.
"We’re doing as promised. A few days ago we shared the joyful news with you about the birth of tiny minunls. And yet in the video you could see only three kittens.
So we’re very happy that we have not three or four, but six little ones!
Their mother is taking good care of them in her den, but we believe that soon you’ll see them exploring their outdoor enclosure.
