Zoo visitors admiring a chubby Amur leopard as the lazy animal enjoys a cat nap in the midday in its enclosure.
Smartphone footage depicted the spotted feline taking a relaxing snooze at the Hangzhou Zoo, located in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang, on 14th January.
The critically endangered animal could then be seen struggling to roll around and go up on all four, as amazed spectators watched and giggled.
One of them could be heard saying: “Baby, it’s time for you to lose weight!”
The video reached more than 91,000 likes and another 66,000 shares after it was posted on China’s version of TikTok, Douyin, later that day.
Douyin user ‘It’s a pineapple bun’ said: “It’s so plump. I can’t even imagine how warm it would feel to sleep with it in my arms in the winter.”
User ‘RF ah peach’ commented: “There is no single trace of fitness on its body.”
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And ‘uh-huh’ added: “And you are telling me that this thing can run dozens of kilometres an hour?”
The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is native to the Primorye region of south-eastern Russia and northern China.
It is classified as ‘Critically Endangered’ on IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species. With around 110 individuals remaining in the wild in Russia and China as of 2021.
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Story By: Georgina Jedikovska, Sub-Editor: Simona Kitanovska, Agency: Asia Wire Report
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