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Old 08-07-2013, 11:22 AM   #1
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August 6, 2013: Baby panda born at Taipei Zoo

link via Neatorama and the Taipei Zoo facebook photo stream.

This is bigger news because the babbeh was borned of pandas gifted to Taiwan from China.

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Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan by China in December 2008 and have become both star attractions at Taipei Zoo.

The island nation will be allowed to keep the cub as the panda couple were a gift from China rather than a loan, Taipei officials have said.

Beijing usually only loans its pandas and any progeny must be sent back to China.

China's decision to give Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan to Taiwan was a symbolic gesture to show warming ties between Taiwan and China.




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Old 08-07-2013, 11:50 AM   #2
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So that's what Sarge has been up to!


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Old 08-07-2013, 06:13 PM   #3
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Beijing usually only loans its pandas and any progeny must be sent back to China.

China's decision to give Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan to Taiwan was a symbolic gesture to show warming ties between Taiwan and China.
It shows China is planning on taking back the island anyway.
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Old 08-07-2013, 06:17 PM   #4
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that is an ugly baby
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Old 08-08-2013, 06:06 AM   #5
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that is an ugly baby
Yeah? Well it's gotta be the first 'cute' Panda I've ever seen.

Too bad he's born into such a dead-end loser species.
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Old 08-08-2013, 01:29 PM   #6
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So that's what Sarge has been up to!

Dirty boy.

Anyway, I suspect it is a kitten, rolled in the dust under the bed.
Note how there is no size comparison.
In the first photo he is sniffing the air for catnip. Poor faux-panda-kittens born already addicted
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