Gesundheit....
Chimelong sounds like Chime-a-long...
Bing...bang...bong
Its the front door, I'll get it.
what an interesting article...good luck to the pandas...
again
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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| Chinese Zoo Unveils World's 'First' Surviving Panda Triplets | |
| 2014-08-13 | |
[AnNahar] A Chinese zoo has unveiled newborn panda triplets billed as the world's first known surviving trio, in what it hailed as a "miracle" given the animal's famously low reproductive rate.
Her cubs were then put into incubators while Juxiao regained her strength, and have now been brought back to their mother for nursing and are being attended to by a round-the-clock team of feeders, the zoo said. "They were said to be the only panda triplets that have ever survived," the safari park said in a statement released Tuesday. An official from Sichuan Wolong National Natural Reserve, considered the foremost authority on pandas, said the trio were too young to be officially recognised as "surviving" but that they were the only known panda triplets alive. "We can only say they are surviving once they reach six months. For now they are indeed the only surviving triplets," said an official from the centre who only gave her name as Ms. Zhao. "The triplets can be described as a new wonder of the world," Chimelong Safari Park said, describing mortality rates among newborn pandas as "extremely high". Pictures taken earlier this month of the triplets showed the pink-coloured cubs inside an incubator with their eyes closed and bodies sparsely covered with white fur. "The mother and babies were in good condition, but the adorable newborns were particularly inspiring," the zoo said. The gender of the cubs was not disclosed and they would be given their names at a later date. Pandas, whose natural habitat lies in mountainous southwestern China, have a notoriously low reproductive rate and are under pressure from factors such as habitat loss. China has about 1,600 pandas living in the wild. Their normal breeding season is mid-April to May. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 San Diego Wild Animal Park (now known as the San Diego Zoo Safari Park) had a wonderful breeding program that brought african rhinos back from about 30 members. Then it turned out the generation of rhinos they so successfully bred turned out to be gay (or at least uninterested in mating). Sometimes nature chooses a species for extinction. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-13 14:27 |
| #2 Oh goody. Lame prose to go along with lame imagery. It's a two-fer. And worth the price. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-13 10:05 |
| #1 An official from Sichuan Wolong National Natural Reserve, hmmmm Ms. Chou, no doubt....first name Hia...Chou Gesundheit.... Chimelong sounds like Chime-a-long... Bing...bang...bong Its the front door, I'll get it. what an interesting article...good luck to the pandas... again |
| Posted by: Punky Smith8673 2014-08-13 00:52 |