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Woodland Park zookeepers tossed soccer balls to some of their charges last Wednesday to commemorate the first round of the MLS Cup Playoff Western Conference Semifinals, which ended, of course, in a lame tie. The Sounders better win Sunday or AMY GET MAD!! Regardless, check out the 15-year-old, 850-pound grizzly brothers, Keema and Denali, demolishing the hapless balls while five-month-old snow leopard cubs Gobi and Batu and the zoo’s Humboldt penguins take a more friendly, frisky approach. The soccer balls are part of the zoo’s animal enrichment program which aims to promote natural animal behavior and keep the animals mentally stimulated.

Now thanks to the Woodland Park Zoo, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project, there's a few more of these wee turtles in the wild.

We've been following the young lives of the Woodland Park Zoo's once ittty-bitty twin snow leopard cubs born May 25. The spotted white fluff balls have gotten big enough that they are scheduled to make their public debut on August 15, the zoo-dubbed International White Snow Leopard Day.

Look at that face! In the above video, the now six-week-old Woodland Park Zoo snow leopard cubs undergo another vet exam, complete with their first vaccinations and deworming. Awwwwww. There's only one little baby "peep" in the video (at 0:42), but you have to watch till the end to see the cubs trying their first solid food, chicken.

Yesterday, the Woodland Park Zoo uploaded the first video of the new snow leopard cubs to YouTube. The footage was shot Friday and consists of yet another weigh-in session. The female (Helen) weighed in at 3.8 lbs and the male (Tom) at 4.3 lbs. Starting at the one-minute mark, you can hear the cubs' noises, which are much more like a bird's peep than the yowl of the big cats they will grow up to be.

  

A pair of cutie pie snow leopard cubs, a male and a female, were born on Memorial Day at the Woodland Park Zoo. The above photos show the cubs at their neonatal exam and weigh-in (they currently weigh between 3.6 and 4 lbs). The 3-week-old cubs are the first offspring for the 4-year-old mother, Helen, and 3-year-old father, Tom. Whoa, baby: these cubs take the tally up to 29 snow leopards born at the zoo since 1972. That's a big deal, especially considering there's only about 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild. While you can't see them in person just yet (they're busy bonding with mom and drinking lots of milk), fans of the kitties can check out more photos and video via the zoo's blog, YouTube page, and Twitter.