These are the first images of an endangered Sri Lankan leopard cub - of which only 800 remain in the wild - seen here playing with its mum.
The heartwarming images were filmed by the CERZA animal park in the town of Hermival-les-Vaux, in the Department of Calvados, in France’s north-eastern Normandy region on the English Channel.
The young cub was born on 19th April, Houssaye said, but these images are the first, showing the young leopard, whose species is “endemic to Sri Lanka”, joyfully playing with its mum, who appears very tolerant of the young cub’s antics in the footage.
He said that the newborn cub does not have a name yet but that the veterinarian staff are going to name him – “it’s a male” - in the coming days.
Hermival-les-Vaux, France
(CERZA/Zenger News)
