Panda Pandemonium September 25, 2012
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- Toy Panda Figure
Bill A has added a photo to the pool:
Too bad that the panda infant died at the National Zoo.
This toy Panda figure is sitting outside, together with a large collection of other toy figures, over the entrance way to a basement apartment in a Baltimore rowhouse. - Mei Xiang's baby has passed away: Update.
(from the National Zoo's facebook page)
We're still reeling from the loss of our giant panda cub, and we feel like the whole world is mourning with us. Our staff is anguished, which is to be expected. Every loss is hard but this one is especially devastating. Thank you so much for your outpouring of support. Your support and understanding of our work helps tremendously when we have to get through tough times like this.
We still don't know definitively what caused us to lose the giant panda cub yesterday, but we do have some more information since yesterday, especially from the necropsy (animal autopsy). The giant panda cub appeared to be a female. She weighed a little less than 100 grams, which is about four ounces. There were no signs of trauma, external or internal, which means that she was not crushed — confirmation that Mei is a good mother. Her heart and lungs also looked good, which tells us that she did not suffocate. There was a little milk in the cub's gastrointestinal tract, which tells us that she did successfully nurse. The only abnormalities the veterinarians have detected so far were some fluid in her abdomen and a slightly abnormal liver. They don't know yet whether either of those things is significant, and they're still investigating.
The panda team continues to monitor Mei Xiang, and will until she returns to her normal behavior. She appeared to sleep well last night. Watchers did notice her cradling an object, as she did before to the birth of the cub. We believe this is an expression of her natural mothering instinct.
We have more information on our website: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/default.cfm#update.
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mnielsen9000 has added a photo to the pool:
I've been slow to post here lately, so I feel a certain connection to this lazy guy (Tiergarten Zoo, Vienna).
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