Baby Giant Panda Born at San Diego Zoo

[emad]

Baby Giant Panda Born at San Diego Zoo

Wednesday August 3, 2005 7:16 PM


SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 13-year-old giant panda gave birth to a cub at San Diego Zoo, but a second fetus died in the womb, officials said Wednesday.

Bai Yun gave birth shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday after being in labor for three hours. The birth - less than a month after another cub was born at the National Zoo in Washington - was captured on closed-circuit television in the Giant Panda Research Station birthing den.

However, hope of a third panda birth was dashed as Zoo Atlanta announced that tests showed its panda was not pregnant. There are only about 1,600 giant pandas in captivity and in the wild, zoo officials said.

San Diego Zoo officials said the cub weighed 4 ounces, the size of a stick of butter. The gender will not be known for some time because zoo officials don't want to disrupt mother and child.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5187446,00.html

[proud patriot]

1. Woo Hoo

:woohoo:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Here's the link to watch him grow!

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html

I'm never going to get any work done now! :hi:

[emad]

3. Thank you.

Looks better than the CNN video.

[Moochy]

4. wake up and dance for me you little panda

can we click on something to poke him and wake him up?

Dance for me little panda baby dance!! ;-)

[barb162]

5. pandas are the cutest (and koalas)

[Shell Beau]

6. Awww!!

I think I found my new love! So sweet!

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. You and me both. My family is thinking of getting rid of me.

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

8. We can just go join the pandas!

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Well, there you go!

:hi: We can go for the protest...and stay!

[sakabatou]

10. Stick of butter... giant panda

big size/weight ratio

[Patiod]

11. If it's a female, they can fix her up with the one at Nat'l Zoo!

Assuming they both survive infancy, which is not a given.

Go Pandas!