Curled up in a zoo in central Nicaragua, eyes alert and ears pricked, a puma is nursing her month-old snow-white cub.
The tiny, pink-nosed puma at Thomas Belt Zoo in Juigalpa marks the Central American country's first albino puma to be born in captivity and, according to estimates from zoo veterinarian Carlos Molina, one of only four worldwide.
The cub and its two beige-colored and spotted siblings are being kept in a sealed cage so the mother does not become stressed or confuse human odors with that of the newborns, which could cause her to attack them.The vet has not had any physical contact, and the genders of the litter remain unknown.
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