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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Adorable panda cub Yuan Zai melts hearts at Taiwan zoo as she gets licked clean by her mother

Little Yuan Zai was the first Giant Panda to be born in Taiwan
Staff at Taipei Zoo are caring for her around the clock

By Helen Collis
PUBLISHED: 05:04 EST, 12 August 2013 | UPDATED: 06:31 EST, 12 August 2013

Adorable Yuan Zai - the first panda to be born in Taiwan - is starting to show her little personality as she grows stronger.
New pictures of the heart-melting Giant Panda cub, who was born last month, show the cute creature rolling around and showing an interest in others.
Little girl Yuan Zai was born at Taipei City Zoo, Taiwan, to Giant Pandas Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan.

Heart-melting: Little girl Yuan Zai is being cared for around the clock by staff at Taipei City Zoo, Taiwan

Spreadeagled: Her little arms and legs outstretched, tiny Yuan Zai is growing stronger after being born to captive parents last month

A team of keepers have been working around the clock to take care of the cub, who was initially kept in an incubator.
But the public will have to wait three months to catch a glimpse of Taiwan's first newborn panda, officials said in July.
The little girl in the meantime is starting to gain some strength and show some interest in things around her.

Heart melting moment baby giant panda meets mum for the first...

The public will have to wait three months to catch a glimpse of Yuan Zai, the first panda born in Taiwan, officials said in July

When held up to her mother's cage, the cute cub reached out her tiny paws. The mother, transfixed by the tiny bear cub, licked her through the cage.
Staff at Taipei City Zoo have been caring for the miniature panda around the clock.
Their daily routine includes feeding the cub, taking her temperature after each meal, changing her bedding and keeping track of her weight, zoo official Chang Chi-hua said.
Yuan Yuan and her mate, Tuan Tuan, were gifted to Taiwan by China in late 2008 as a cross-Taiwan Strait gesture of goodwill and Yuan Zai is their first cub.

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Nine-year-old Giant Panda Yuan Yuan successfully gave birth to a baby girl cub named Tuan Tuan : Taipei Zoo

Adorable pictures show rare baby panda Tuan Tuan poking her tongue out and giving a wave as she goes from strength to strength in her first few weeks of life

Tuan Tuan is growing fast and has already doubled in weight
The rare baby cub is beginning to gain some of her black and white coat
The Taipei Zoo celebrated her birth after seven attempts at impregnating mother Yuan Yuan over the past three years
Yuan Yuan and another panda were given as a gift to the country of Taiwan from China

By Jaymi Mccann
PUBLISHED: 19:57 EST, 28 July 2013 | UPDATED: 01:34 EST, 29 July 2013

It was a momentous occasion earlier this month when nine-year-old Giant Panda Yuan Yuan successfully gave birth to a baby girl cub named Tuan Tuan.

The panda was born at the Taipei Zoo after three years filled with seven failed pregnancies for the mother. Natural pregnancy among pandas is relatively rare.

Now a few weeks older, baby Tuan Tuan is growing fast and has doubled in weight.
The cub is still being cared for behind the scenes at the zoo, and visitors won't get to see the baby until she is three-months old. To update Tuan Tuan's admirers, the zoo released a new set of photos of the growing cub hamming it up for the camera.

Smiling for the camera: Newborn Giant Panda cub Tuan Tuan is growing fast behind the scenes at the Taipei Zoo

Hello world! Tuan Tuan was born completely pink, but now she is beginning to gain her black and white color

Counting the days: Zoo visitors won't get to see the cub until she is three-months old

Miracle baby: Tuan Tuan is mother Yuan Yuan's first cub after Zoo officials tried for three years to impregnate her through artificial insemination

Gift of life: Mother Yuan Yuan was a gift to the Taiwain government from China

Reunion: Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan together mean 'reunion'

She's staying: China has agreed to let the baby panda stay in Taiwan, though they previously stipulated that any cubs must be returned to the mainland

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Giant panda Lun Lun shocks handlers as she delivers rare twins at Atlanta zoo - the first in America for 26 years

Twin pandas have not been born in an American zoo since 1987

'We have twins!': Zookeepers couldn't contain their excitement Monday after unexpected delivery

By Ap Reporter
PUBLISHED: 01:13 EST, 16 July 2013 | UPDATED: 05:37 EST, 16 July 2013

A giant panda at Zoo Atlanta gave birth to the first twins born to the species in an American zoo since 1987.
The 15-year-old Lun Lun went into labor Monday afternoon and gave birth to the first cub at 6:21 and the second two minutes later.
Zookeepers who had been anticipating only one cub based on a recent ultrasound were surprised by the first-ever twin panda births at Zoo Atlanta.
‘We have twins!’ Zoo Atlanta announced on its website.

Surprise! 15-year-old Lun Lun was to be a mom for the fourth time, but ended up birthing a set of twins Monday to the surprise and joy of Zoo Atlanta staff

An ultrasound on June 30 determined that Lun Lun was pregnant with her fourth cub. Zoo spokesperson Keisha Hines says zookeepers weren't expecting the tiny duo, however.
The twin cubs are the first giant pandas to be born in the United States in 2013, Hines added.
Zoo officials are working with animal care workers from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where Lun Lun and her 15-year-old partner, Yang Yang, were born. There was no immediate report on the size or weight of the cubs at birth, nor the condition of the offspring and mother.
But zoo officials were in a celebratory mood.

Twins! In a first for an American zoo since 1987 and first ever for Zoo Atlanta, 15-year-old Lun Lun gave birth to this rare set of giant panda twins on Monday