Monday, September 24, 2012

National Zoo: Week-old giant cub had fluid in abdomen

 
 

Mei Xiang, the cub's mother, appears to still have a maternal instinct. "Sadly, we have witnessed her cradling an object for most of the night," Zoo Director Dennis Kelly said. National Zoo officials said preliminary necropsy results from the recently deceased panda cub show that that the cub had fluid in its abdomen and some discoloration in the liver. Full necropsy results should be back in two weeks, at which time Chief Veterinarian Suzan Murray said the zoo would know definitively why the cub died.



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