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Aug 06, 2009

Hands Off Our Butterstick, San Diego!

Bai Yun, the San Diego Zoo’s female panda, just thinks she’s soooooo great, doesn’t she. She’s been popping out babies left and right over the last few years, already having had four to our own Mei Xiang’s one, and then just to pour salt in the wound, she had to go and have a fifth one yesterday. Well la-di-dah, San Diego. Aren’t you friggin’ special. But kindly note that your zookeepers don’t seem to have…

Aug 01, 2007

San Diego Thinks It’s Better Than Us. Again.

A begrudging Mazel Tov from DCist to the city of San Diego is in order, as the Associated Press reports that Bai Yun, the San Diego Zoo’s female panda, is definitely pregnant. Bai Yun has been put on “24-hour birth watch” after officials detected a fetus and fetal heartbeat through ultrasound images on July 18. More tests confirmed the pregnancy and the zoo made an official announcement yesterday. As you’ll no doubt recall, Mei Xiang,…

 
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