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.
