PandaCam at The San Diego
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Giant Pandas: Our World Famous Celebrities
FIFTH PANDA BORN AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, AUGUST 5, 2009
The 24-hour birth watch at the San Diego Zoo came to an end today when giant panda Bai Yun gave birth to her fifth cub. The birth was witnessed at 4:58 a.m. by the giant panda team watching the Zoo’s closed-circuit camera placed in the birthing den. The sex of the mostly hairless, pink newborn, which is about the size of a stick of butter, will not be known for some time, and it will be approximately one month before the iconic black-and-white coloration of a giant panda becomes visible.
The San Diego Zoo has had a love affair with giant pandas ever since two of the black-and-white bears came to visit in 1987. After years of red tape and tons of application paperwork, the Zoo and China agreed on a 12-year research loan of two giant pandas, Bai Yun and Shi Shi. A brand-new exhibit area was built for our panda guests, which has since been expanded and renovated and is now called the Giant Panda Research Station. Although we now have five giant pandas, our facility can comfortably house up to six!
Today our giant pandas enjoy deluxe accommodations with larger exhibit areas and extra vegetation and climbing structures. You’ll enjoy the newer exhibit area too, with its winding, elevated viewing paths that give great panda-watching opportunities into the two main enclosures.
