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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

i've been waaaaaaiting, for a cub like you, to come into my zoo

Psychics: Zoo Panda Will Give Birth
ATLANTA -- Two psychics are predicting that a giant panda at Zoo Atlanta will give birth to a cub this year.

Of course, it helps to know that Lun-Lun was artificially inseminated last March. But panda pregnancies don't always go that well, so the psychics were brought in.
One psychic said she telepathically connected with Lun-Lun and learned from the panda that she will give birth to a male cub in early September.
Zoo officials said they will have definite word on the panda's condition sometime this month.

If born in early August, new-stick will be a Leo. If late, a Virgo.

Giant Baby Panda Born to a Giant Panda!
***WARNING!!! Gratuitous photo of giant baby panda's giant uncut umbilical cord at the above link! This pandologist was not so lucky. Lunch could not be saved. As a PSA, I've pasted the text of page 1 of the article below.***

BEIJING (Reuters) - A giant panda in China has given birth to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins, Xinhua news agency reported.

Six-year-old Zhang Ka delivered the baby on Monday at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua said.

The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but was still the heaviest panda ever born in captivity, where most cubs are born at between 83 and 190 grams, Xinhua said.

"It is very rare for them to be even near 200 grams," it said in a report late on Monday. But the size and the fact that it was Zhang Ka's first meant a "painstaking and eventful" birth for the mother, who was born in the wild.

"The whole process lasted about 34 hours and was the longest in the history of panda reproduction," Xinhua quoted Zhang Hemin, head of the Wolong center, as saying. Both mother and baby were doing well, the agency said.

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