![]() ![]() In fact, even experts weren’t sure that Mei Xiang was pregnant at all even three days before she gave birth. ![]() Even as zookeepers at the National Zoo celebrated the twins’ birth, their colleagues across the Atlantic Ocean at the Edinburgh Zoo learned that for the fourth year in a row, their own possibly-pregnant panda, Tian Tian, would not give birth after all, Sam Knight writes for The Guardian. Sadly, for an animal that is so beloved and yet so very endangered (there are only 1,600 giant pandas in the wild and a little over 300 in captivity), pandas don’t make it easy for the people trying to bring them back from the brink of extinction. Nearly 900,000 people tuned in to the National Zoo’s Panda Cam over the weekend, almost as many as visited the website in the whole month after Mei Xiang gave birth to her last baby, Bao Bao, in 2013, Perry Stein writes for The Washington Post. ![]() When an endangered species is as difficult to breed in captivity as the giant panda, even a single baby panda is a major event. Predictably, zookeepers and animal lovers around the world were over the moon. Last weekend, a giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to two tiny cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo. ![]()
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