I think it’s a panda baby week. With yesterday’s photos of the Atlanta Zoo panda cub and these cute little cubbies, this week might just end up being pretty good!

Look. At. That. Adorable. Fuzzy! Panda.

One-month-old twin panda cubs are held by zoo keepers during their first appearance before the public at Adventure World in Shirahama in central Japan over the weekend. The cubs — one female and one male — were born Sept. 13. It’s unclear why the female, on the left, appears to be having a bad hair day.

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Three-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei were unsettled by the tens of thousands of visitors to Wuhan Zoo during last week’s National holidays.

The pair, whose names mean “Hope” and “Greatness” in Chinese, began pacing restlessly around their enclosure, according to He Zhihua, their keeper.

“They had been getting less sleep,” he said. “We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock.”

Chicken soup is a traditionally medicinal food in China, and each panda was given a litre of homemade soup in addition to its regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns. “They loved it,” said Mr He. “They drank it like they drank their milk.”

Although pandas have a taste for bamboo, they are not averse to eating meat in the wild, occasionally devouring birds and insects. Another panda at the zoo, Dudu, was fed ground meat for the last decade of his life because his teeth became too weak to chew through bamboo.

Xiwang and Weiwei are refugees from the Wolong Panda Reserve in Sichuan, which was affected by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the province in May.

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I saw this article in the Daily Mail yesterday and knew I had to share with you. It’s a pretty basic article about the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in Sichuan, China. However, there were too many adorable panda baby pictures to pass up. You can read the article here.

Enjoy!

And my favorite:

I don’t know why, but I have a serious love of tiny panda paws.

It makes me so sad to report this, especially after yesterday’s excitement about the Atlanta Zoo pregnancy, but the newborn panda born at the Oji Zoo in Japan has passed away after only 3 days on this earth.

I just saw the footage of the cub being born yesterday and couldn’t wait to share it with you guys. If you’d like to see it, you can here.

It’s thought that the panda died due to excessively strong hugging from its mother, or simply from not drinking enough milk.

Source: News24.com

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Thanks to Frances for forwarding this to me!

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After all the recent updates dealing with the terrible effects of the May Earthquake, we finally have some good news to report! Ten cubs have been born to Wolong pandas! At their new home Bifengxia in Ya’an City, six mothers have given birth. As you may remember, the pregnant females were the first pandas to be evacuated after the earthquake at Wolong, and Incubators were one of the first items sent to Bifengxia by Pandas International.

New Wolong Babies

	Guo Guo was rescued following the 5-12 earthquake and moved from Wolong to Bifengxia (photo at left). She had twin boys on July 6, 2008 (top). Guo Guo was born September 14, 1996 to Mom Jia Jia, who is now at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. Guo Guo’s Dad is Xin Xing.
Guo Guo’s twins. Incubator and formula donated by Pandas International (above).
That’s right — baby panda poo!

July 13th Ying Ying had a single cub (above).

Ying Ying’s cub (above).

July 21st Long Xin had twins (not shown). July 26th Bai Xue had twins (above).	August 5th Cao Cao had twins (above).
Other births On August 8, 2008, Fei Fei had a single cub who will hopefully be named the Olympic Baby. In addition, Chengdu has had 6 cubs born and Xhaanxi had one set of twins. Dr. Li with one of Guo Guo’s twins in incubator provided by Pandas International (at right).

New Babies Need Lots of TLC (and milk)! Help us continue to grow and thrive by making a donation to Pandas International today.

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Thanks again for all the support for this little panda site. You’ve made a huge impact in helping pandas without much effort. How awesome is that?!

Julie