Black and white and cute all over

Baby snow leopards make San Francisco debut

July 26, 1997
Web posted at: 12:05 a.m. EDT (0405 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Three cute, cuddly new stars made their public debut at the San Francisco Zoo Thursday.

Dawng Dawng, Lee Lee and May May are rare black-and-white spotted snow leopards born at the zoo about 10 weeks ago. However, the trio is hard to spot together, because they don't usually sit still long enough to make it into the same camera shot.

Take a look at the newest residents of the San Francisco Zoo, snow leopards.
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The best time to catch a glimpse, zoo keepers say, is in the morning. That's when the baby leopards are at their most active -- not to mention their most adorable.

There are only about 6,000 snow leopards left in the wild, mostly in the Himalayas.

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