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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Finnish Zoo Celebrates Arrival Of Adorable Pallas's Cat Kitten
Caption: Korkeasaari Zoo in Finland has an adorable new resident - a Pallas’s Cat kitten. The two-month-old is already moving briskly with its mother indoors and is gradually starting to go outside. The cat, also known as a manul, orginates from Asia is a thick-furred aroki cat known for its gloomy expression. The behaviour of the four-year-old female changed in June; it started spending a lot of time in a nest box. When the booth was examined more closely, a kitten was found there. The kitten is now two months old. It is a female and weighs half a kilo. The mother was born in Germany from the Chemnitz zoo and she moved to Korkeasaari in a newly renovated Manul enclosure last autumn. It got a partner this spring from a one-year-old male brought from the Budapest zoo. Pallas’s cats are solitary animals, so the female and the male are only in the same shelter during estrus. The male normally lives in the backyard of Kissalaakso, and is not visible to visitors. The number of Pallas’s Cats in the wild has been decreasing for a long time. It usually lives in small numbers in a wide area in the barren grass and mountain steppes of Central Asia.
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