these are the first aksu cubs to be rescued from a poacher's trap in the tajik mountains.ique. event for russia, the zoo’s press service reported; in 2019 , a red book cat was rescued as part of an international experiment on the translocation of snow leopards from tajikistan to russia. among the pervm zoologists have a lot of experience in captive breeding from a gentle leopard, and that’s how the aksu came to us. oksu was a fairly young cat who came to us, well, since she is a cat, after all, fallen from nature, and with such a difficult fate, but when she arrived, she was quite aggressive, but it was quick. now she’s even more than a snowball, she’s probably people-oriented, she communicates well with the keepers who look after her, and well, she got used to it pretty quickly and, by the way, she got along with the snowball pretty quickly, of course, it’s not easy the process of obtaining offspring from leopards, especially since it requires a suitable enclosure, and suitable conditions, food content, ensuring the process of pairing, bringing together a male and a femal