This is the best video I’ve seen yet of a panda giving birth. Lun Lun, a female panda at the Atlanta zoo, gave birth to twins. This just happened, and the BBC reports:
Lun Lun, a 19-year-old giant panda, has given birth to twins at Zoo Atlanta.
h/t: Michael
Don’t sit on it mommy.
The definition of a baby only a mother could love. ewwww
“only a mother could love”
Sometimes not even that. Reminiscent of the Eraserhead baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY92djw1SoA
Incredible size difference between mom and kid.
Rotating?? Who takes care of the other one?
Considering how small the baby is, I wonder if panda childbirth is painful.
Apparently, no panda ever ate a forbidden fruit :-).
I’d be so afraid I’d step on or roll over on my baby if I were a panda.
This is not an uncommon event and panda cubs have been inadvertently killed, especially with first-time panda mothers. The curators at the zoos and the Panda bases in China have to be very alert to this possibility.
Classic … it’s not “precocious”, is it “altricial” … infant. Totally dependent on the (mother | parent) for care for an extended period of time.
Almost like a hoomin. Or a catling.
Or a kangaroo joey.
I admit I tend to confuse pandas with koalas, because both are teddy-like, slow, herbivorous, arboreal, and endangered. Still, I try to remember that they live in different places and the panda is placental while the koala is marsupial. When I looked at the image of the baby panda… I could swear it was a marsupial baby! In the future, I’ll be even more confused.
I thought the same thing, Maya. It certainly looks like a marsupial baby in size, but it doesn’t have to climb all the way up to a pouch.
She must keep it wrapped in her belly to keep it warm, Does she eat while she’s nursing such a vulnerable infant.?