A two-month-old panda, the first cub born at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo for five years, is growing well and has become « fluffy », the zoo said Monday as it released fresh video footage of the baby animal. The footage showed the as-yet…
A two-month-old panda, the first cub born at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo for five years, is growing well and has become « fluffy », the zoo said Monday as it released fresh video footage of the baby animal.
The footage showed the as-yet-unnamed cub being weighed and measured by keepers at the zoo, and napping, crawling and playing with her mother, Shin Shin.
« The baby panda is now fluffy with increasing body hair, » zoo director Yutaka Fukuda said at a press conference.
« She will grow even cuter as more panda-like characteristics begin to emerge, » Fukuda said.
The rare birth of the panda in June triggered a frenzy of media and public excitement in Japan, with businesses keen to cash in.
