Mountain Lion Cub Meowing At Pals At Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is showing off a bundle of cuteness -- a 9-week-old mountain lion. The cub has been in quarantine until this week. Now he's moved into a behind-the-scenes den at the zoo and he certainly loved the chance to explore.

(credit: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo)

He has not met the rest of the pride but he's definitely talking to everyone, meowing back and forth to other young lions.

Those meows are a way for all the lions to get used to how each of them sounds and get familiar with each other.

The keepers say that's a good sign about how things will go when he is introduced to the pride, once he's big enough.

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