The Denver Zoo on Thursday announced the addition of four clouded leopards to its Toyota Elephant Passage, which opens June 1.
The tree-dwelling cats are native to Asia. The additions include 10-year-old females Tenchi and Mattie from Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla.
The other two are less than a year old — female Lisu from the Nashville Zoo and male Taji from Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Wash. Both cubs arrived under the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan in hopes that they will breed.
The zoo said the clouded leopards, scientifically speaking, aren’t leopards at all but of their own genus, Neofelis, a bridge between big cats, such as lions and tigers, and smaller cats, such as puma, lynx and ocelots. The Denver Post
