(Observer Network News) Yesterday, the mainland donated Taiwan giant panda "Yuanyuan" to the Taipei Zoo successfully gave birth to the second female baby panda.
According to the Taiwan media "United News Network" reported on June 29, "Yuanyuan" broke the water at 8:58 a.m. on the 28th, and after more than 5 hours of hard work, a baby panda was born at 1:53 p.m. on the same day.
The newborn baby panda has a very loud cry. Upon hearing the baby's crying, "Round Circle" picked up the cub and took it into his arms, and this meticulous care made the nurse initially unclear about the gender of the baby panda.
After that, it may be that "Yuanyuan" lacks care experience, and the newborn baby seems to have not sucked the colostrum, the nurseryman decided to remove the newborn baby first and give supplemental colostrum, which learned that it was a female panda baby.
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However, the nursery staff also found a small wound on the newborn baby's back. In this regard, Cao Xianshao, a spokesman for Taipei Zoo, pointed out that the big cat bear canine teeth are very sharp, after the cat and bear baby is produced, the "tuantuan" tries to bite with the mouth, and finally accidentally, an L-shaped wound appears on the back of the cat and bear baby.
He further said that at present, the baby panda is not in serious trouble after being sutured by veterinary treatment, the condition is stable, and it is expected that the wound will recover within a week, waiting for the wound to heal, and then evaluating and letting it return to the mother's "round circle".
According to reports, the newborn baby weighs 186 grams and has a good appetite.
Talking about the naming of cats and bear babies, Cao Xianshao said that good naming takes time to brew, first collect the personality and behavior of cats and bear babies, and provide reference for naming activities.
For the outside world to care about when to meet the baby cat and bear, the park said that the baby panda must wait until it can move with its mother, and appear as soon as around Christmas this year.
Cao Xianshao said that in the past, during the breeding season of giant pandas, relevant mainland experts would personally visit the Taipei Zoo to provide experience. This year, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, mainland experts could not come to the scene for guidance, so from the beginning of the "Yuanyuan" estrus behavior, Taipei Zoo contacted mainland experts to discuss the breeding of big cats and bears online. On February 26 and 27, the garden performed artificial insemination on the "yuanyuan" twice.
The two giant pandas were born in 2004 and went to Taiwan from the mainland in 2008. The Taipei Zoo considered the two pandas to be young and did not immediately arrange artificial insemination, which was not tried until 2011.
The first child of "Tuan Tuan" and "Round Circle" was born in 2013. Cao Xianshao said that compared with the first round child of Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan became a mother for the second time, and the production process was quite smooth.
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