THE GIANT PANDA, LI-LI, and the cub, Ming-Ming, which was born to her in Peking's zoo in September, 1963. Cubs are very small when born, weighing no more than four or live ounces, but within 10 weeks (at which age they are cutting their first milk teeth) their weight has increased 25 or 30-fold. Ming-Ming was weaned at six months, when she weighed 25 to 30 pounds, on a thrice-daily diet of milk, rice and eggs, fortified with vitamins, bone-meal, salt and liver-oil. She was a year old and weighed 80 pounds before she began to sample bamboo shoots—the great panda’s staple diet in its wild environment. A cub reaches 120 pounds by the age of 16 months, and is fully grown between five and six years old. The picture is from "The World Of The Giant Panda,” a book reviewed on this page.

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 4

THE GIANT PANDA, LI-LI, and the cub, Ming-Ming, which was born to her in Peking's zoo in September, 1963. Cubs are very small when born, weighing no more than four or live ounces, but within 10 weeks (at which age they are cutting their first milk teeth) their weight has increased 25 or 30-fold. Ming-Ming was weaned at six months, when she weighed 25 to 30 pounds, on a thrice-daily diet of milk, rice and eggs, fortified with vitamins, bone-meal, salt and liver-oil. She was a year old and weighed 80 pounds before she began to sample bamboo shoots—the great panda’s staple diet in its wild environment. A cub reaches 120 pounds by the age of 16 months, and is fully grown between five and six years old. The picture is from "The World Of The Giant Panda,” a book reviewed on this page.