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Pandas - Georgia / Atlanta Zoo
birdcamfan:
The SD zoo seems to have put put a short video of how they got the pandas to get in the family way using a couple of zoo employees dressed as pandas. It is too cute and for the most part fairly tame. It is posted on YouTube under "sexy pandas"
carly:
Encouraging news from San Diego Zoo...Bai Yun may be pregnant!! She's four for four now so I'm guessing in a few weeks there will be a new cubbie at the zoo!!
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/denning-up/
carly:
Our beautiful Mei Xiang is not pregnant after all, she is experiencing a pseudo pregnancy. Poor girl, all that suffering and she doesn't even get a cub to cuddle. Nature sometimes has a strange sense of humour :-\
carly:
On a totally different topic, Mei Xiang has been in her nest den all day sleeping and cradling her ball like a cub on and off. She's slowed down alot again the past few days...she's almost in a stupor today!
carly:
I should also mention that Lun Lun was taken from her own mother at the age of 4 months whereas Bai was with her mom for 13 months. In the US they allow the cubs to stay with their moms for 18 months as scientists here felt that the cubs being taken away at such a young age were missing out on being taught very important social skills by their mothers.
In the wild cubs would stay with their mothers anywhere from 18 months to 2.5 years before they were weaned. Lun Lun may be more protective of her cubs as a result of that. No doubt as she raises more cubs successfully she will relax more. They say Bai Yun was way more relaxed with Zhen Zhen than with her other 3 cubs.
As TPC always likes to say experience makes a difference and I expect that applies across all species as it does in humans ;)
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