Zhen Zhen at the San Diego Zoo on February 18, 2008.
Zhen Zhen at the San Diego Zoo on February 18, 2008.
I’m going to miss this bear so much when I move. :(
And this one.
Yun Zi, the panda cub born at the San Diego Zoo. He’s 4 months old in this photo from December 2009. Great video of his check ups, and photos of him since right after he’s born at the click through link.
This Thursday Nov. 12, 2009 image provided by the San Diego Zoo shows the zoo’s panda cub during a physical exam in San Diego. Zoo officials on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 announced that the 3-month-old black-and-white ball of fur will be called Yun Zi (YUN ZIH), which is Chinese for “Son of Cloud.” (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo, Ken Bohn)
SAN DIEGO — The panda cub born at the San Diego Zoo nearly a month ago is a boy.
The zoo said the yet-to-be-named cub’s mother briefly left the den Thursday, allowing veterinarians to examine the 2.8-pound baby panda for the first time.
Senior zoo veterinarian Geoff Pye says the cub is healthy and starting to show its black-and-white markings. He says the cub has reached its “initial cute stage” and is “very roly poly.”
The tiny cub’s birth on Aug. 5 attracted so much traffic to the zoo’s Web site that the online Panda Cam camera feed crashed. The zoo’s blog also went down for a period.
On the Net:
- San Diego Zoo,: http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam
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