Meet Lun's Elegant And Happy (Panda) Daughters


It has been 100 days since two child pandas, referred to for three months as Cub An and Cub B, were conceived at Atlanta's zoo.

At a naming function Monday morning, Zoo Atlanta reported Cub A will be called Ya Lun and Cub B will be called Xi Lun. As indicated by a zoo public statement, Ya signifies "exquisite" and Xi signifies "cheerful". The fledglings' mom is named Lun.

"The 100 Day Celebration ... is an antiquated Chinese custom that holds that when a tyke achieves the 100th day of life, he or she has survived the delicacy of earliest stages and might be considered on track for an effective future," the discharge clarified.

Both pandas are females. The zoo said five more established kin of the match were conceived in Atlanta and now inhabit Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China. (In the event that you were pondering, pandas coming back to China go via plane, with human associates.)

Since they were conceived in September, Ya Lun and Xi Lun have invested quite a bit of their energy in the spotlight, regardless of not having the capacity to walk or go outside (or even open their eyes toward the start). The zoo has discharged redesigns on their advance at regular intervals by means of Twitter and YouTube.

A great many individuals have watched recordings like this one, demonstrating a normal veterinary exam of a 52-day-old whelp (it's misty whether this is Ya or Xi).

In a gesture to the pandas' fame, when it came time to consider names, the zoo requested that people in general pick among seven potential names gave by a panda protection accomplice in China. More than 27,000 individuals voted between Nov. 21 and Dec. 4.

As indicated by Zoo Atlanta, it is one of four U.S. zoos lodging monster pandas, all of which are on advance from China. The cooperation between the Chinese government and American zoos is intended to help the since quite a while ago imperiled panda populace.

In September, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which keeps up the "red rundown" of undermined species, updated mammoth pandas from "jeopardized" to "powerless" and said their populace was expanding, as we reported.

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