Mei Xiang may be with child! We repeat: Mei Xiang may be with child! The National Zoo is reporting that the panda that zoologists artificially inseminated back in March may be pregnant. That’s what hormore levels indicate. But it may be just a “pseudo pregnancy,” something that will be keeping panda lovers everywhere on pins and needles. Mei Xiang went through two such pseudo pregnancies in 2003 and 2004.
Scientists have collected urine samples every week to track her hormone levels and conducted biweekly ultrasound exams to monitor changes in her uterus. The ultrasounds have not shown any evidence of a fetus, but veterinarians say fetuses do not develop until the last weeks of the gestation period.
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