National Zoo’s Clouded Leopard Cubs Reach a New Milestone

Happy News! The now almost three-and-a-half month old clouded leopard cubs born at the conservation and research center of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park have just left the hospital, where they had been hand reared since birth, and moved to their new home at the facility.

The two yet-to-be named cubs are now on an adult diet of chopped up beef and are exploring their new world at the Front Royal, Va., facility.

“They are in a nice enclosure, where they are learning to climb. They have no problem going up. They love to go up. Right now, they go up a large branch and go down a log. Eventually, they will start jumping down,” said JoGayle Howard, a reproductive specialist at the facility.

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