SEATTLE – The Matriarch Snow Leopard at Woodland Park Zoo, named Helen, has died. The grandma to cubs was previously battling kidney disease.
Zookeepers and staff are mourning the loss of the 20-year-old leopard who lived to see one of her cubs have a litter of three cubs of their own.
The Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan aims to increase the genetic diversity of the living population of snow leopards while also observing the successful raising of cubs by their mothers.
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