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Atlanta Panda cub doing well

2008-Oct-08

Born just after I arrived in china Lun Lun Lun Lun Hua Hua 伦伦 452 1997-Aug-25 Female Zoo Atlanta Chengdu Zoological Garden Bing Bing - #314 LIn Nan - #298 's baby is doing well, after concerns soon after it was born.

Atlanta’s new panda cub is finally beginning to look like his parents.

  The infant born Aug. 31 is now covered in the black and white fur typical to giant pandas. Panda babies are born hairless, pink and about the size of a stick of butter.

  Atlanta’s cub now weighs more than 2 pounds, up from the 4 ounces he weighed at birth. Zookeepers expect him to open his eyes for the first time in the next few days.

  The zoo will hold a naming ceremony for the cub in December, about 100 days after his birth, which follows Chinese tradition.

  The cub is the zoo’s second baby panda. Mei Lan was born in 2006 to the same mother, Lun Lun Lun Lun Hua Hua 伦伦 452 1997-Aug-25 Female Zoo Atlanta Chengdu Zoological Garden Bing Bing - #314 LIn Nan - #298 .