JUIGALPA (Nicaragua), Aug 23 — Curled up in a zoo in central Nicaragua, eyes alert and ears pricked, a puma is nursing her month-old snow-white cub.

The tiny, pink-nosed puma at Thomas Belt Zoo in Juigalpa marks the Central American country’s first albino puma to be born in captivity and, according to estimates from zoo veterinarian Carlos Molina, one of only four worldwide.