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A small cat joins the zoo’s wave of new animals—meet the manul!

Posted by Gigi Allianic, Communications Photos: Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren/Woodland Park Zoo Hello Goose! This particular cat species may not meow, but it has attitude and a grumpy face to back it up. Meet the newest animal member at Woodland Park Zoo, a manul (MAH-nool, rhymes with cool) named Goose. The male feline arrived from Columbus Zoo in Ohio and just turned 2 years old. Just one glance at the manul’s face and it’s no wonder grumpy cat comes to mind. With a flat-looking face, wide-set ears and round pupils, this cat displays some of the funniest expressions in the feline kingdom. More commonly known as Pallas’s cat, manul is the cat's name in the Mongolian language. Woodland Park Zoo received its first manul, two females, in 1992 as a gift from Chongqing Zoo as part of the Seattle-Chongqing Sister City Association. The last manul at Woodland Park Zoo passed away in 2005 of age-related causes. “People may be curious about his peculiar name, Goose, for a cat. He was named Goose at...