USA-PANDA/BIRTH Giant panda gives birth at Washington's National Zoo

Record ID: 135610

  • Title: USA-PANDA/BIRTH Giant panda gives birth at Washington's National Zoo
  • Date: 22nd August 2015
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (AUGUST 10, 2015) (REUTERS) ZOOM IN GIANT PANDA, MEI XIANG, EATING BAMBOO ZOO VISITORS TAKING PHOTOS OF PANDA PANDA OBSERVATION FACILITY WITH SIGN SAYING "GIANT PANDA RESEARCH IN PROGRESS" PANDA ON OBSERVATION SCREEN ZOOM OUT TO WIDE OF PANDA OBSERVATION FACILITY VISITORS WATCHING ZOOM OUT GIANT PANDA, MEI XIANG, EATING BAMBOO
  • Embargoed: 6th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABKOHE2P1EKUO90E6GFX40DRSG
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  • Story Text: The National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth to a cub on Saturday (August 22), the zoo said.
    Mei Xiang, a star tourist draw in the U.S. capital, gave birth at 5:34 p.m. (2134 GMT), the zoo said on Twitter.
    "Video and pix to come," the zoo said.
    Mei Xiang previously has given birth to two surviving cubs: Tai Shan in 2005 and Bao Bao in 2013.
    Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated on April 26 and 27 with frozen sperm from Hui Hui, a panda in China, and fresh sperm from the National Zoo's Tian Tian, it said.
    Giant pandas are one of the world's most endangered species and have a very low reproductive rate, particularly in captivity. Their natural home is in a few mountain ranges in central China. There are about 1,600 giant pandas known to be living in the wild and some 300 in captivity, mostly in China.
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