US-born panda Hua Mei gives birth to her 8th cub in China
September 20th, 2010 - 12:06 am ICT by Aishwarya BhattSep 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The US-born panda Hua Mei has created a record of sorts by giving birth to her 8th cub in China. It sure is an accomplishment of a sort, because the pandas are known to be very poor breeders. The newborn cub is a male and he was born at 3 am on Friday and was said to weigh about 162 grams at birth, according to officials from the Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center.
Hua Mei is also mother to 3 sets of twin pandas. The newborn cub is yet to be named by the officials of the Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center. With the latest addition, the center already had 16 panda births in this year till now. In 2009 also, the center saw 16 panda cubs being born.
The mother of eight – Hua Mei was born in US and thus she was named Hua-Mei, which literally means “China-America”. She was born in the San Diego Zoo in August 1999. When she was 5 years old, then she came to China and since then has stayed in the Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center.
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