Twenty-year-old San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth to a brand-new cub today, her sixth. Here, she is seen three years ago with her last cub, Yun Zi.
(Credit: San Diego Zoo)
SAN DIEGO, Calif.--For hundreds of thousands of passionate panda watchers, the birth at the San Diego Zoo today of a new panda cub is an event well worth celebrating, especially given that the mother is probably the second-oldest known panda ever to successfully deliver. And thanks to some high-tech imaging, the zoo was able to monitor the pregnancy every step of the way.
For weeks, the panda team at the zoo here has been on tenterhooks, hoping against hope that the 20-year-old mother, Bai Yun, would carry to term what they were nearly certain was a new cub. But since Bai Yun had had an unsuccessful pregnancy last year, and because of her age, the team was unwilling and unable to say with certainty they would soon be meeting a brand new panda.
Using high-tech to prepare for a baby panda (pictures)
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