First panda born in Taiwan is female
Xinhua | Updated: 2013-07-07 14:27
TAIPEI - The first cub born to a pair of pandas presented to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland is female, the Taipei Zoo announced on Sunday.
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Giant panda Yuan Yuan is seen with her newborn cub at Taipei Zoo in Taiwan, July 6, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua] |
The sex of the newborn cub could not be immediately identified, because its mother, Yuan Yuan, kept it around her after giving birth at 8:05 pm (Beijing Time) on Saturday.
Its birth weigh accounted for only about one-thousandth of that of its nine-year-old mother, the zoo said.
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