{"id":866,"date":"2020-11-30T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/?p=866"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:00:00","slug":"kaluwara-bokkuwa-23-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/kaluwara-bokkuwa-23-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaluwara B\u014dkkuwa 2:3 Male (2017\/18) [YM 43\/Steve]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">[Kaluwara = Ceylon ebony tree <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diospyros_ebenum\" target=\"_blank\">(<em>Diospyros ebenum<\/em>)<\/a>, Bokkuwa = culvert]<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaluwara B\u014dkkuwa 2:3 male was born in late 2017, with his sister the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/kaluwara-bokkuwa-34-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Kaluwara B\u014dkkuwa 3:4 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Their mother is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/rawum-wala-33-male\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Rawum Wala 3:3 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (this is her 3<sup>rd<\/sup> known litter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were first photographed on the 7<sup>th<\/sup> of February 2018 near the G\u014dnalahaba Ground when their mother fetched the cubs to enjoy the buffalo kill made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/kosgasmankada-23-male\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Kosgasmankada 2:3 male<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He grew to be well extroverted while his sister was a bit introverted. By mid-2019, this male cub and his mother started to move towards the South of Y\u0101la block 1. In April, both of them were seen close to the Meynert Wewa and the Buthawa Plain. Thereafter, this male was seen at Karawgas Wala. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, he was seen exploring a large area including <strong>\u016araniya, Welmalkema, and Kotigala.<\/strong> Occasionally he was seen with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/welmal-kema-44-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Welmalkema 3:4 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/siyabalagas-wala-33-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Siyambalagas Wala 3:3 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/rathmal-wala-44-female\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Rathmal Wala 4:4 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/leopards-of-yala\/palugas-wala-42-female\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Palugas Wala 4:2 female<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. In April 2021 he was seen mating with Palugas Wala 4:2 female around the Welmalkema area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Kaluwara = Ceylon ebony tree (Diospyros ebenum), Bokkuwa = culvert] Kaluwara B\u014dkkuwa 2:3 male was born in late 2017, with his sister the Kaluwara B\u014dkkuwa 3:4 female. Their mother is the Rawum Wala 3:3 female (this is her 3rd known litter). They were first photographed on the 7th of February 2018 near the G\u014dnalahaba Ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7628,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/7628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardtrails.com\/leopardsofyala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}