It looks like the giant panda cub at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., is getting the right kind of love and attention. The newborn got a clean bill of health after her first full veterinary exam on Monday afternoon.Mama bear Mei Xiang (pronounced “may-SHONG”) has spent much of the past three and a half weeks cradling her cub, so zookeepers had been waiting for the right moment to sl…
Who’s your daddy? The Smithsonian National Zoo answered that question Thursday for its 2-week-old giant panda cub, which was revealed to be a girl.The new cub is the daughter of Tian Tian, one of two male pandas used to inseminate the cub’s mother.Mei Xiang delivered her female cub on Aug. 23. She delivered a second, stillborn cub a day later. Zoo officials confirmed the second cub, a fraternal tw…
