Newborn female panda doing well at Taipei Zoo
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July 8, 2013, Monday
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THE first cub born to a pair of pandas presented to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland is a female, Taipei Zoo announced yesterday.
The panda cub is healthy, weighing about 183.4 grams, or only about one-thousandth of its mother Yuan Yuan, zoo employees said.
The sex of the newborn cub could not be immediately identified, because its mother kept it close after giving birth at 8:05pm on Saturday.
Yuan Yuan was artificially inseminated. She delivered the cub after about two hours of labor, and she immediately held it in her mouth and placed it close to her, according to a video clip played at the press conference.
The cub is being kept in an incubator, and Yuan Yuan has been given vitamins and glucose as nutritional supplements. Calcium may also be given to Yuan Yuan if she nurses her cub, according to zoo employees.
The zoo will accept suggestions from the public before deciding on a name for the cub.
Yuan Yuan and her male partner Tuan Tuan were given to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008.
The panda cub is healthy, weighing about 183.4 grams, or only about one-thousandth of its mother Yuan Yuan, zoo employees said.
The sex of the newborn cub could not be immediately identified, because its mother kept it close after giving birth at 8:05pm on Saturday.
Yuan Yuan was artificially inseminated. She delivered the cub after about two hours of labor, and she immediately held it in her mouth and placed it close to her, according to a video clip played at the press conference.
The cub is being kept in an incubator, and Yuan Yuan has been given vitamins and glucose as nutritional supplements. Calcium may also be given to Yuan Yuan if she nurses her cub, according to zoo employees.
The zoo will accept suggestions from the public before deciding on a name for the cub.
Yuan Yuan and her male partner Tuan Tuan were given to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008.
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