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Summary The births represent a huge boost for conservationists battling to save the endangered species.
A proud Peruvian Zoo showed off two adorable jaguar twin cubs to hundreds of adoring visitors. The twin births are a huge boon for conservationists with only a few reported cases of jaguars being born in captivity ever documented.At only three months of age the playful cubs have a particularly distinctive characteristic that sets them further apart from other jaguars of their kind, a rare skin pigmentation that will intensify with age, said manager of the Parque de las Leyendas Zoo, Tatiana Quevedo.Conservationists in Peru have undertaken an ambitious conservation plan for the endangered species that has been largely wiped out in North America.The twin births represent a huge boosts to the parks efforts to build further on its successful breeding program.They have been raised entirely by the mother and I expect that in the future we will now have a successful breeding program for these cubs, as successful as their mothers, Quevedo added.
