Panda’s time up
NZPA-AP Washington The biological clock has virtually run out on LingLing, the female giant panda at the National Zoo, in Washington. Zoo keepers are almost certain she will not give birth this year. Ling-Ling mated with the zoo’s male giant panda, Hsing-Hsing, three times in the middle of the year, a performance record for the couple. And, during a round-the-clock panda watch the last two months, zoo officials and volunteers observed
some nest building, which often indicates a panda pregnancy. Hormone tests displayed positive and negative indications. But officials said yesterday that they thought the panda would have given birth by now if she were really pregnant. The day marked the longest gestation period officials could realistically expect for a panda pregnancy. Ling-Ling has given birth twice before. One cub died shortly after birth and the other was still-born.
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