Comments on: National Zoo: Baby Panda Died This Morning

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:41:39 +0000

So sad she lost her baby. I am sure the zoo personel did all they could. Maybe the distressed mother prevented them from getting to the baby.

By: cara vasquez

cara vasquez — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:01:26 +0000

so sad she lost her baby

By: Janice Hunter

Janice Hunter — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:09:05 +0000

I hope the Chinese panda breeding program will either take the National Zoo pandas back to China and put them into their breeding program or send them to San Diego where they have a perfect record of cub survival. Six for six. All born to the amazing Bai Yun.

The National Zoo has had pandas for longer than any zoo in the US and they have only one surviving cub.

Their breeding program has been a disaster and it is time to put the pandas where they have a chance of producing cubs that will live more than the few days all of the NZ cubs have, except for one.

Pandas are too precious and rare to waste their potential at the National Zoo any longer.

And an hour from when Mei started to make distress calls before they got to the cub? Might it possibly have been saved if they had gotten to it sooner?

I am so sad for the cub and for Mei.

By: Kate Brown

Kate Brown — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:51:53 +0000

I was SO sorry to learn of the death of this baby. while the one here in San Diego is doing very well, it is a terrible tragedy to lose ANY Panda. My heart goes out to all who cared for the newborn and the mother. I hope they will continue their breeding program in spite of this heartbreak.