Name that Snow Leopard!
You thought there could be nothing cuter than a baby tiger, but you were wrong: baby snow leopards are cute critical mass. And Woodland Park Zoo has them!
Two of them in fact, female cub Batu and her male twin brother whose name WPZ would like you to help select. Go to their voting page and select from these Mongolian names:
Gobi – after the Gobi desert in Mongolia
Boke – meaning “strong”
Irbis – meaning “leopard”
Vachir – meaning “thunderbolt”
Vachir and Boke, by the way, are way cooler than Gobi or Irbis, but let your conscience guide you. (Batu, by the way, means “firm, hard, honest”.) Voting enters you to win cool prizes and the cub’s new name will be announced on Saturday, August 15 during the International Snow Leopard Day festivities which run from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. The cubs will be introduced at noon.

