Kittens were born in a family of leopards in Sochi

“A pair of Persian leopards Alous and Cherry kept in the Caucasus Leopard Restoration Center in Sochi National Park gave birth to two kittens. Predators became parents on July 10, ”the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources reports on its website, citing the head of the department, Alexander Kozlov.

According to the minister, Alous and Cherry are not the first time parents, and their children have already been successfully released and live in the wild.

Alous was born in Turkmenistan in 2002, and in 2009 he was brought to the "Center for the restoration of the leopard in the Caucasus" of the Sochi National Park. He has since sired successful offspring with various females, but mostly with Cherry, who was born in 2008 in Iran and has been living at the Center since 2010.