MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee County Zoo is showing off its newest attraction - a new snow leopard.
Asa is barely a year and a half old. He's the zoo's latest acquisition, the first of two promised. The Greater Milwaukee Foundation helped make it happen.
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"The zoo is really important and special to many people in the community and we really wanted to do something unique. So it was a partnership with them, finding out what would really make a difference," says Jeremy Podolski, with the foundation.
Asa has a bit of a spotted past.
"His mom was having some complications during birth so they were able to save him and hand-raise him," Zookeeper Amanda Ista notes. "So he is more friendly with people, but also we are hoping our female is going to teach him how to be a snow leopard, too."
The second snow leopard is expected to arrive from Switzerland in 2016.
