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Have you ever heard of a liger? For those who haven't, it's a hybrid crossbreed between a male lion and female tiger, and it's among the rarest of large cats. This two-month old baby liger cub named Tsar was born in the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky from a lion named Caesar and a tigress named Princess.
Cleopatra the white lioness gives birth to three cubs one year after Tbilisi zoo lost 281 animals following devastating floods.
Elza the puppy and Astra the lion cub became best friends after being introduced to each other by zookeepers at the Sadgorod Zoo in Russia's Vladivostok to help Astra socialize. Now the two young animals are basically inseparable, spending nearly every waking moment playing and hanging out together. It turns out that the two-month-old girls have quite a bit in common. Besides being roughly the same size and having a similar color fur, the two were born on the same day, sleep on the same pillow, and even eat out of the same food tray.
Vets were hand-feeding the tiny Amur leopard baby at the Yalta Zoo, as the cub is still too young to open its eyes or even walk on four legs. Only 57 Amur leopards, which are listed as "Critically Endangered," are believed to live in the wild as of 2015. Despite the fact that Amur leopard numbers have roughly doubled since 2007, they are still the species of large felines most vulnerable to extinction.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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