Critically Endangered Leopard Dies at Age 21 in California Zoo

This 2018 photo provided by The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens shows Amur leopard Zoya, who passed away from old age at the zoo in Palm Desert, Calif., on Nov. 26, 2024. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens via AP

LOS ANGELES—A critically endangered species of leopard has died at a Southern California zoo.

Zoya, a 21-year-old Amur leopard, died of old age at 21 at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert last Tuesday after over a decade there, zoo officials announced.