04/23/2026
✨ Charu ✨
Today is International Pallas’s Cat Day 🎉🎉🎉 It’s a perfect time to stop and celebrate our favorite grumpy-looking, short-legged little felines! 😸
Charu, pictured here, has played an important role in the EAZA Ex situ Program (EEP) as the mother of two litters over her years at . Through her daughter Ula she is also now a grandmother, with grandchildren in France, Sweden, and U.K. The EEP is a critical pillar of manul conservation genetics, and helps to ensure and safeguard the survival of manuls for generations to come 🌏
I chose to highlight Charu because she really embodies the steppe spirit of a manul 💫 She is rarely seen in her rocky hilltop enclosure at the Tierpark, preferring to lurk amongst the dense rocky terrain. So every encounter with her feels like a special one 💖 Meanwhile her mate, Chengdu, is perfectly content to ball up and sulk in the open with his expert rock camouflage 🪨
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