Posted on 08/03/2005 10:20:41 AM PDT by CAluvdubya
San Diego Zoo The Zoo's animal care staff observed Bai Yun give birth at 9:57 p.m. via a close circuit camera installed in the Giant Panda Research Station birthing den Aug. 2. The gender of the newborn will not be known for sometime. SAN DIEGO Bai Yun, the San Diego Zoo's 13-year-old giant panda, gave birth to a cub Tuesday night after three hours of what doctors called "uneventful" labor. Panda Team Leader Don Lindburg said Bai Yun immediately picked up the newborn and placed it on her chest, shielding it from view behind her massive arms. For the next few months, he said, the two will be inseparable.
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How can you be a mother again? If she's already had a panda cub in the past, then she's been a mother since then.
She's also a grandmother.
Not my title. Just a prime example of the quality of journalists that are being produced.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
For those whose biological clock is ticking, this should give them hope.
Bravo! This is the second one born recently...another at the National Zoo.
A wonderful achievement. These gentle giants are fading fast in the wild...only real hope is breeding in captivity, and that has been iffy at best. Cubs often don't survive.
Hope and prayers that these new babies survive and thrive.
Amen to that! Our pandas have a wonderful home in San Diego.
Hey, they're just here "doing the work that not even black bears want to do in the United States."
(At least I think that's what Vincente Fox said.)
Haha I know..just pointin it out!
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