National Zoo: Giant Panda Mei Xiang Gives Birth

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National Zoo: Giant Panda Mei Xiang Gives Birth

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Closed signs mark the panda exhibit at the National Zoo after the zoo’s female giant panda gave birth to a cub. The zoo staff has yet to see the new cub because Mei Xiang has built a large nest in her den.

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Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington.

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Dennis Kelly, Director of the National Zoo, during a news conference announcing that Mei Xiang had given birth.

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Children climb and lean against the handrail of the closed panda exhibit at the National Zoo in Washington the day after it was announced that the zoo’s female giant panda gave birth.

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Panda keeper Laurie Perry carries Tai Shan, a giant panda cub, out for the cameras during The Smithsonian National Zoological Park's preview of the cub on November 29, 2005. Tai Shan was the sixth panda cub born at the National Zoo and the first cub for Mei Xiang.

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The 4-month-old giant panda cub Tai Shan nuzzles his mother Mei Xiang following his health exam at the National Zoo in Washington Nov. 21, 2005.

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Mei Xiang's first cub Tai Shan goes after his 'cake' during his 4th birthday celebration at the Smithsonian's National Zoo on July 9, 2009.

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Tai Shan, one of the Smithsonian National Zoo's giant pandas, looks out from a specially designed crate prior to leaving the zoo in Washington on February 4, 2010.

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Tai Shan, one of the Smithsonian National Zoo's giant pandas, is loaded aboard a plane in a specially designed crate to fly directly to Chengdu, China, under a prior arrangement to participate in the panda conservation and breeding program.

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American-born panda Tai Shan eats bamboo in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province.

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