PICTURES: New snow leopard Pari at Highland Wildlife Park is spotted
A new female snow leopard has proved elusive since arriving at the Highland Wildlife Park at the start of May.
So elusive in fact that staff at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland attraction have just managed to get photos of her.
The RZSS is hoping Pari will help produce a future generation of a species which is becoming increasingly rare.
She turns two later this summer and has joined the resident male, Koshi, following her arrival from Stuttgart’s Wilhelma Zoo in Germany.
A RZSS spokesperson said: “The snow leopard is found in some of the harshest climates in the world.
“Its natural camouflage renders them almost invisible in their surroundings and has earned them the nickname ‘ghost of the mountains’.”
There are thought to be only between 2,500 to 6,500 individuals remaining in the wild.
