10-year-old snow leopard dies at Peshawar zoo

PESHAWAR - A 10-year-old snow leopard, died in Peshawar Zoo on Thursday after afternoon.

The snow leopard has not shown any symptoms of disease or deterioration of health. "The death is natural as snow leopards don’t live longer than 14 years", Muhammad Ali, Project Director at the zoo told Geo news.

The leopard was brought to the zoo from Galiyat and was scheduled to be taken back on April 15, he added.

The death comes a few days after a four-year-old fallow deer of American-African origin passed away in the zoo under mysterious circumstances.

On Tuesday, an eight-year-old Bengali tigress died at Lahore zoo. The Bengali tigress was born at Bahawalpur zoo and brought to the Lahore zoo in 2014, a zoo spokesperson told Geo.tv

The eight-year-old tigress was suffering from a parasitic disease, the spokesperson added.

Her body was sent to the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences for postmortem.