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Chester Zoo \/ SWNS<\/p>\n Chester Zoo \/ SWNS<\/p>\n
A very old jaguar and her senior son are being welcomed to a specially-made retirement home in a UK zoo.<\/p>\n
Wild jaguars typically live for around 12 years, but Bonita is already 16 and her son Remi is 11, having already survived cancer.<\/p>\n
The two have lived side-by-side in a safari park since Remi\u2019s birth and will remain together after being transported to their new enclosure at Chester Zoo in England.<\/p>\n
The move follows months of planning with experts from Europe\u2019s jaguar conservation program.<\/p>\n
\u201cBonita and Remi are truly special animals, and we\u2019re delighted to be able to provide them with a new retirement home here,\u201d said Dave Hall, Chester Zoo\u2019s Team Manager of Carnivores.<\/p>\n
\u201cBonita has been a devoted mother to Remi throughout his life, so ensuring they stayed together was a real priority for everyone involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemi\u2019s journey has also been a remarkable one. In 2019, a lump was removed from his head following a diagnosis of hemangiosarcoma, a very aggressive malignant cancer, which makes his continued good health today all the more extraordinary.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur teams have worked closely with colleagues from across the UK and Europe to make sure every detail of their move and ongoing care has been fully considered \u2014from transport to the set-up of their new habitat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see them already settling in and exploring their new surroundings side-by-side,\u201d said Hall in a statement<\/a> from Chester Zoo, which released a video of the cats prowling around their new home.<\/p>\n MORE GOOD NEWS FOR JAGS<\/strong>: Jaguars are the largest cat in Latin America and the species is listed as \u201cNear Threatened\u201d by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to habitat loss through farming and illegal hunting.<\/p>\n Watch Bonita and Remi in their new home\u2026<\/p>\n SHARE THE HAPPY ENDING With Animal Lovers on Social Media\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chester Zoo \/ SWNS A very old jaguar and her senior son are being welcomed to a specially-made…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,4653,29126,6026,159,3470,67,132,68,837,4286],"class_list":{"0":"post-461069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-cats","10":"tag-compassion","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wildlife","18":"tag-zoos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115754604478398950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461069","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=461069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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