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“As opposed to Sunday, today she positioned her body and her cub so that panda keepers couldn’t reach the cub.”
National Zoo keepers experience “five minutes of pure terror” before they realized the stillborn panda cub discovered late Saturday night was not Butterstick II.
Aug 25, 2013
Photos: ‘Robust’ Panda Cub Receives First Checkup
After relaying the sad news of the stillborn panda cub, the National Zoo says Mei Xiang’s living cub is “robust, fully formed and is a bright, healthy shade of pink.”
Aug 23, 2013
National Zoo’s Panda Mei Xiang Gives Birth to Cub
“Mei Xiang picked the cub up immediately and began cradling and caring for it,” the National Zoo said in a release.