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China Center Introduces 9 Baby Pandas
Pandas Will Debut On Chinese TV Next Month
POSTED: 3:54 pm EDT September 28,
2006
UPDATED: 3:58 pm EDT September 28,
2006
CHENGDU, China -- Nine fuzzy baby pandas were introduced to the media Thursday at China's Wolong Panda Protection and Research Center.
The pandas range in age from 53 days old to just under 1 month old.They will make their public debut on China's national TV on Oct. 1.Female pandas normally become sexually mature at 4 or 5 years old. They can get pregnant once a year and usually give birth to one or two cubs at a time.The center has said that it may be on track to break last year's record of 16 pandas born.Just five years ago, there were less than 1,500 giant pandas in the wild. Now, with the help of artificial insemination, more giant pandas are born and survive at the center than anywhere else in the world.With 180 pandas now in captivity and as many as 3,000 in the wild, researchers are moving closer to their ultimate goal: sending them home to the wild.
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