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Aug 21, 2017

Is The Giant Panda Preggers? Keepers Close Part Of Zoo Habitat, Just In Case

Mei Xiang is exhibiting signs of pregnancy, but it could be a pseudopregnancy.

Aug 06, 2013

Panda: Sensitive, Reserved, and as Utterly Confusing as Ever

Is Mei Xiang pregnant or just bored?

May 20, 2009

Mei Xiang is Not Pregnant

Mei Xiang. Photo by Daniel.Techie @ 127.Ø.Ø.1 Oh, Mei Xiang, you absolute heartbreaker. Staff at Smithsonian’s National Zoo confirmed late yesterday their adult female giant panda is in fact not pregnant, and was instead experiencing another one of her pseudopregnancies. This also happened last summer. And the summer before that. The Zoo’s Panda House has been closed for several weeks while National Zoo scientists monitored Mei Xiang’s hormone levels and behavior and conducted ultrasound…

 
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