Pandas are notoriously difficult to find in the wild, their presence in the are can usually be seen, with half eaten bamboo scattered around and of course their deposits. Pandas have a great sense of smell and hearing and any signs of humans and they're gone.

The earthquake on May 12th 2008, was right in the middle of pregnancy period and it was feared that many of the pandas in the wild would of aborted their pregnancies due to the fear and stress of the quake, and the problems of finding food soon after.

Almost two years after researchers have found a mother with a son of the correct age to signify that he was born in 2008 after the earthquake.

The find has given encouragement to researchers that other panda cubs were born in the wild in 2008