Tiny panda twin dies in zoo
NZPA-AP Mexico City
The tinier of three-day-old twin pandas, a pink furry baby that had been • ignored by its mother, died last week in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park Zoo.
The zoo’s administrator said that the panda which fitted in the palm of a hand, lived for 37 hours in the care of zoo employees, who held it around the clock and caressed it.
Ying-Ying, the mother, who was in good condition after the birth, had focused all her attention on the firstborn, said the administrator, Ms Maria Elen Hoyo. Ying-Ying probably did not even realise that she had had a second baby. It was born two hours and five minutes after the first, on Tuesday afternoon. “When she saw the second one it seemed like a strange thing,” Ms Hoyo said. YingYing has been holding the first baby continuously to her chest and licking it.
The firstborn, about twice the size of the one that died, seemed to be doing well. The smaller panda weighed 67.5 gm and ; measured 14cm at birth.
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