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Giant Panda Cub at the Smithsonian's National Zoo is Female

Mother panda Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) cuddles her newborn cub in this photo released by The Smithsonian's National Zoo on September 5th, 2013. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics confirmed that the giant panda cub born Aug. 23rd at the National Zoo is female. A paternity analysis showed that the Zoo's panda Tian Tian (t-YEN t-YEN) is the cub's father. Scientists also confirmed the second stillborn cub Mei Xiang delivered on Aug. 24th was also a female, and also sired by Tian Tian. The cubs were fraternal twins. Mei Xiang had been artificially inseminated with the semen from two giant pandas, Tian Tian and Gao Gao. UPI/Smithsonian

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