Well thank God. This would really be news if Giant Panda gives birth to a toaster.
Posted on 08/08/2006 2:19:46 PM PDT by Fighting Irish
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.
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Well thank God. This would really be news if Giant Panda gives birth to a toaster.
Yippee-skippy.
Ugly looking thing.
Awwwww. It's cute.
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