The Ramat Gan Safari will participate in a project aiming to populate European zoos with 200 leopards and to release some into the wild.
JNS reports that after arriving from France, 2-year-old Mademoiselle is acclimating to her new home before meeting her planned mate, Coresh.
Staff at the Ramat Gan Safari, near Tel Aviv, had asked the public for suggestions for a name for the 2-year-old Persian leopard. She was previously in the Beauval Zoo in France’s Loire Valley, Ynet reported.
The leopards will be placed in the same den to familiarize themselves with each other’s scent. Once the safari crew determines that the couple is interested in the encounter, they will be permanently placed in a den together.
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