Tokyo’s newest baby panda, which is just beginning to crawl and has now lived long enough to get a name, will be called Xiang Xiang, the governor of the Japanese capital, Yuriko Koike, said on Monday….
Tokyo’s newest baby panda, which is just beginning to crawl and has now lived long enough to get a name, will be called Xiang Xiang, the governor of the Japanese capital, Yuriko Koike, said on Monday.
Japan celebrated the birth of the healthy female cub in June, five years after her mother, Shin Shin, lost another cub within days of its birth. It has been nearly three decades since a baby panda at the capital’s Ueno Zoo has survived this long.
The name, written with the Chinese character for fragrant, was chosen from more than 322,000 suggestions submitted by the public.
Most pandas are named at around 100 days of age, which Xiang Xiang reached last week.
