❤️🐼 Keepers report that giant panda Mei Xiang and her newborn had a successful first night. Meanwhile father Tian Tian seems blissfully oblivious, rolling around his outdoor enclosure Saturday morning. Normally a combination of frozen sperm and fresh semen extracted from Tian Tian would have been used. But in order to minimize the number of close-quarters medical procedures, zoo officials used only frozen semen. Mei Xiang, left, and cub Bao Bao wrestle in the snow at the Smithsonian National Zoo in January 2015.

Source: CBC News August 22, 2020 17:36 UTC