Eram Zoo leopard “Mavi” died of an infectious disease

According to a Fars reporter, the director of the Eram Zoo announced today that “Mavi”, a female leopard that was present in this complex, has died due to an illness.

He said that despite all the efforts, care and treatment with the help of specialists, “Mavi” could not stand it due to the difficulty of treating peritonitis in cats and the treatments did not work and the leopard was killed.
Shahabuddin Montazemi, the former director general of the Wildlife Office of the Environment Organization, who was in this position less than a week ago, in an interview with a Fars reporter, stated that the cause of the leopard’s disease was acute infection and announced that there was still a report from the province to investigate. The issue has not reached the environmental organization.

Mohammad Karami, the head of Tehran’s Environmental Wildlife Surveillance Department, explained in an interview with a Fars reporter: “According to the results of the initial tests, a super-acute infectious agent affected the animal’s nerve center and the female leopard had a seizure.” have been.

He described the disease as a disease of the four-year-old leopard, which Mavi described as accompanied by symptoms such as lethargy, dysentery and anorexia. He was transferred to the Veterinary School for a CT scan.
The director of wildlife, natural history and genetic resources of the General Department of Environmental Protection of Tehran Province acknowledged: This leopard has been physically weak and has not been very active because it has been ill for some time.

In June 2009, this female leopard was seized from hunters in the central city of East Azerbaijan while she was only 2 months old, and because she was separated from nature in 2 months, she could not return to her habitat. He was transferred to Pardisan Park in Tehran and transferred from Pardisan Park to Eram Zoo on January 28, 2017.

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