{"id":78320,"date":"2020-09-30T01:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/national-zoos-panda-cub-is-so-plump-its-almost-as-round-as-it-is-long\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:19:32","slug":"national-zoos-panda-cub-is-so-plump-its-almost-as-round-as-it-is-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/national-zoos-panda-cub-is-so-plump-its-almost-as-round-as-it-is-long\/","title":{"rendered":"#National Zoo’s panda cub is so plump, it’s ‘almost as round as it is long’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#National Zoo’s panda cub is so plump, it’s ‘almost as round as it is long’<\/strong>”
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\n This baby bear is a square.<\/p>\n

Washington, DC\u2019s Smithsonian National Zoo welcomed a new panda cub on Aug. 21, and in its single month on Earth, the newborn has gained weight in such a way that its girth now almost perfectly matches its height.<\/p>\n

The zoo\u2019s assistant curator of giant pandas, Laurie Thompson, made the assessment in the zoo\u2019s Giant Panda Bulletin on Friday<\/a>, following the fluffy babe\u2019s second veterinary exam. The checkup was done surreptitiously when the infant\u2019s mom was distracted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Mei Xiang left her den to grab a bite to eat this morning, we had another opportunity to conduct a brief exam on our 1-month-old giant panda cub. The newborn was quite sleepy when we retrieved it from the den and napp<\/a>ed through much of the excitement,\u201d Thompson wrote in the Friday update, headlined \u201c#PandaStory: The Cub\u2019s Growing Girth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vets found that the cub weighed just under 3 pounds and measured 13.9 inches from nose to tail tip and 12.5 inches in circumference, leading Thompson to make the point that, \u201cOur plump panda cub is almost as round as it is long!\u201d<\/p>\n

The pudgy bundle of fluff achieved this geometric state solely through drinking its mother\u2019s milk, which it will continue exclusively subsisting on until it turns about a year old.<\/p>\n

The chonky bundle\u2019s height and width is only slightly more adorable than the results of its first veterinary exam<\/a>, in which the zoo\u2019s veterinary team listened to the cub\u2019s heart and lungs, palpated its stomach, tested its suckle reflex and moved its little limbs to assess its musculoskeletal development, concluding that \u201cAll signs point to a healthy and strong cub!\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up on the tot\u2019s medical agenda is to find out its gender.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Center for Conservation Genomics is analyzing the cub\u2019s DNA, and we should know definitively in a week or two whether it is a male or female. Stay tuned for that exciting development!\u201d Thompson concluded the post.<\/p>\n

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