--- title: Akron Zoo's New Adorable Baby Snow Leopards are Rare as They are Cute description: Akron Zoo's Shanti and Roscoe are proud parents of two adorable and rare baby snow leopards. canonical: https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-28T19:25:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:06.693Z og:title: Say Hello to the Akron Zoo's New Baby Snow Leopards og:description: Akron Zoo's Shanti and Roscoe are proud parents of two adorable and rare baby snow leopards og:url: https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7a7198ae2ec2a81/6986911ae8524b0a286030f7/screen-shot-2014-05-28-at-3-24-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-05-28 at 3.24.55 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Say Hello to the Akron Zoo's New Baby Snow Leopards twitter:description: Akron Zoo's Shanti and Roscoe are proud parents of two adorable and rare baby snow leopards twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7a7198ae2ec2a81/6986911ae8524b0a286030f7/screen-shot-2014-05-28-at-3-24-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Say Hello to the Akron Zoo's New Baby Snow Leopards by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 28, 2014 7:25 PM UTC  by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 28, 2014 7:25 PM UTC After Snow Leopard couple Shanti and Roscoe gave birth to twin baby snow leopards just two years ago, the couple was blessed again with a new pair of fluffy little leopards. The babies — one girl and one boy — were born April 14th. Considering there are only 4,000 Snow Leopards left in the wild and just 155 in the Association of Zoos and Aquarium’s Species Survival Plan, the double twins are more than twice as nice. Shanti and her cubs will remain inside until late June for health reasons, but here’s a behind the scenes look at their lives. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/"},"headline":"Say Hello to the Akron Zoo's New Baby Snow Leopards","datePublished":"2014-05-28T19:25:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:06.693Z","description":"The rare cubs were born last month","url":"https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7a7198ae2ec2a81/6986911ae8524b0a286030f7/screen-shot-2014-05-28-at-3-24-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7a7198ae2ec2a81/6986911ae8524b0a286030f7/screen-shot-2014-05-28-at-3-24-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-05-28 at 3.24.55 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/130273/say-hello-to-the-akron-zoos-new-baby-snow-leopards/","name":"Say Hello to the Akron Zoo's New Baby Snow Leopards"}}]}] ```