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Hi I am Rick Swartz, Director of the Nashville Zoo. and we are sort of bringing you an update today on our Clouded Leopard Cubs. The three of them are now about 8 weeks old. So it's an update from the piece you have seen before. And they are doing great. They are still on the bottle but starting to take solid meat right now. They are growing at an incredible rate and are starting to get pretty frisky with each other, starting to wrestle around as you can see. And they are just incredibly healthy, doing great. We're very proud of them.

[When shaking] This is a method we sort of developed years ago, by sort of calming the cats down. It sort of emulates what the mother would do. If the mother was moving them from a nest cavity she would pick them up across the back and then her normal movements would shake them like this. And it just has a tendency to calm them down, so any time they get nervous we do this to them and they just have a tendency to calm right back down. We use it when we socialize them. Then afterwards they get into sort of a meditative state and it just completely calms down so it's a very effective tool for us in managing these cats.

These cubs are just about weaned out, and when they are weaned in about 2 weeks we are going to put them on public display so everyone can come out and see the cubs. It's a great opportunity to come out and see one of the rarist cats in the world.