Baby
Pandas
This is for those that
haven't seen the 16 baby pandas. SICHUAN , China -- One zoo in southwest China
has its hands full with 16 baby
pandas.
The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection
and Breed Center is dealing with the results of a breeding boom -- 16 pandas
have been born since July, 2005. The brood includes five sets of twins. The cubs
are weighed and measured every five days by a special panda
nurse.
The heaviest tips the scale at just
over 24 pounds, while the lightest weighs about 11 pounds. The pandas are due to
stop being suckled by their mothers in February, 2006 just about the time
they'll start learning to walk. Once weaned, the panda cubs will attend panda
kindergarten. In the meantime, more little ones are expected at the center,
since 38 giant pandas were artificially impregnated.
