Recent visitors to Rosamond may have noticed some of our ongoing work, and also a new resident. We refurbished three exhibit cages housing Obi the serval, Rico the ocelot, and Thumper the Canada lynx. Come check out the beautiful murals in each enclosure!
The new resident, Amur leopard Zeya, is actually a returnee. Born May 14, 2011 at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Kansas with 2 brothers, all 3 lived here in late 2011/early 2012 before moving to the San Diego
Zoo. They are descended from several of our cats - grandparents on one
side are Sergei (born here to Aijka and Gigant) and Sasha (born here to
Tanya and Freddi), and on the other side she comes from a Gigant-Kishka
pairing. It was time to separate her from her brothers so she returned to Rosamond in February.
We hope to announce some cubs soon as well, we have had several pairs breed naturally as well as an artificial insemination of a Pallas' cat. Read about that in the Spring newsletter at
http://www.wildcatzoo.org/pdfs/Mar13.pdf It's only 2 weeks until the first Twilight Tour of the year, on April 27. Tickets can be purchased by calling
661.256.3793 during our gift shop's business hours. You must be 18 or older, and tickets are $20 each. Other Twilight Tours will be held
June 22 and
September 21.
Feline Follies will be
August 17.
We need your help, it's time to find sponsors for Follies! The information package is available at
http://www.wildcatzoo.org/pdfs/Follies13.pdf If you love to shop online, please
remember us, those free-to-you donations really add up for us! Just
start at our web page or these links:
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/?_ encoding=UTF8&tag= felineconservati&linkCode=ur2& camp=1789&creative=9325IGive:
http://www.igive.com/html/ssi. cfm?cid=31&mid=270GoodShop:
http://www.goodsearch.com/ goodshop.aspxFor unique items, visit our Cafepress shop at
http://www.cafepress.com/ wildcatzoo for shirts, mugs, calendars, and much more featuring pictures of our cats.
EFBC/Feline Conservation Center
http://www.wildcatzoo.org