cubs
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Blondie’s two cubs, believed to be 2 to 3 months old, will spend the rest of their childhood in captivity in the hopes that they can one day be released back into the wild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Over many, many years, they started bringing their cubs into the yard, and then they started nursing in front of us,” said Joanne Edney-Coray, who with her husband runs the popular Silver Salmon Creek Lodge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Raj, Ruby’s 4-year-old partner and father to her cubs, is now the only red panda left at the Santa Barbara Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Yet the old lions refuse to surrender to the cubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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