{"id":320167,"date":"2025-10-21T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320167\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:24:12","slug":"name-announced-for-snow-leopard-cub-at-sioux-falls-zoo-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320167\/","title":{"rendered":"Name announced for snow leopard cub at Sioux Falls Zoo &#038; Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; The Sioux Falls Zoo &amp; Aquarium has announced the final results of their cub naming contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meet: Asha! (AH-shah)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Asha the leopard\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HVSA42FYJFBULEWZSJCYDXL4QA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"1480\" \/>Asha the leopard(Great Plains Zoo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Asha was born in late may to leopards Denali and Strut. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The cub\u2019s name was chosen after a voting fundraiser between three names: Asha, Isha or Maiya. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Asha\u2019s name means \u201chope\u201d or \u201cwish\u201d in the Nepalese language, and was reportedly a \u201crunaway favorite\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Asha and Denali are scheduled to go out on exhibit Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">For more information about Asha and other snow leopards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatzoo.org\/name-the-snow-leopard-cub\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.greatzoo.org\/name-the-snow-leopard-cub\/\">click here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Dakota News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) &#8211; The Sioux Falls Zoo &amp; Aquarium has announced the final results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[160479,160480,160477,160478,159,160481,100267,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-320167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-asha","9":"tag-great-plains-zoo","10":"tag-leopard","11":"tag-naming-contest","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-sioux-falls-zoo-and-aquarium","14":"tag-snow-leopard","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115410021218779972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}