Share and Voice: Baby Panda Zhen Zhen

This summer I spent a couple weeks in California. I spent most of my time in San Diego. I went to the San Diego Zoo and got the cutest pictures of the new baby panda Zhen Zhen just shy one 1 year and her mom Bai Yun! Zhen Zhen is the fourth giant panda born at this Zoo. Giant pandas are about the size of a stick of butter and hairless at birth. The mother cares for their cub very well but more often then not many do not survive. There are special captive propagation programs in China and other Zoos around the world designed to study and care for these new panda cubs to help them reach adulthood. There are only around 1,600 Gi ant Pandas surviving on earth, therefore making them endangered. Several reasons why they are endangered is because they have a low reproductive rate, there is a shortage of bamboo (which 99% of their diet is made up of, eating nearly 84lbs a day!), habitat distruction (China's has over 1 billion people), and hunting. In China there is a wildlife reserve making sure that these pandas have food, and space to live with little human interference. Check out these links they have a lot more information than I have, but just thought I'd share some pictures!