http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50153703n

Swift and Beau have their first egg!

http://www.csu.edu.au/special/falconcam/Streams/camera-one.htm

Kendal needs more candles
 
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Q%26K

Thanks for the reminder, Carla!

What a delight!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9d_1377255887

How sweet!

 

Oh no!  Did they report the cause of death?   

This was said in their posting about Pip's passing:


"Pip passed away this morning around 8 AM. She seemed fine yesterday. I Don't know why,

 I heard her "trill" to me at 7 AM, softly, thought she was just sleepy so I let her rest.

 We are all devastated. To me Pip was not just a pet, but a loving friend and a miracle. I do thank God for allowing me the one week with Pip, she was amazing.

 Her remains will be sent to the State for an investigation. I would like to know what happened.

 I am postulating a possible respiratory infection or the chick food did not agree with her." `LGK`

Just read on FB that Pip passed away this AM. RIP little one.

When I first started looking at the forum I thought Yarak was a real person I might meet in downtown Rochester.   

Yarak lives on a cloud in Germany.

Oh he lives in my country? 

  Lucky you, Annette!    

               

Great story!

5 weeks old!

http://youtu.be/7Z9IEy8j1eM

When I first started looking at the forum I thought Yarak was a real person I might meet in downtown Rochester.   

 

This morning, the panda team was able to get the first cub for its neonatal exam. The cub is robust, fully formed and is a bright, healthy shade of pink. It weighs 137 grams, which is about 4.8 ounces. Its heart rate is steady, and vets were able to hear breathing sounds from both lungs. It's belly was nice and full, it's mouth was normal, and it was obvious that the cub is both eating and digesting food. All signs are that we have a very healthy cub.

The next exam on the cub will be on Tuesday. We won't know the cub's sex or its paternity for two or three weeks.

Photo by Courtney Janney, Smithsonian's National Zoo.

Great news! 

Mei gave birth to a second still born cub last night.  Just woke up to that news.  Cub one continues to do well ... paws crossed for her big time!

Smithsonian's National Zoo
At 7:29 p.m. this evening, Mei Xiang gave birth to a second, stillborn cub. Keepers watching Mei on the panda cam saw her groom it for 17 minutes. When she stopped grooming, it fell from Mei’s body onto the floor of the den. It lay motionless and made no sound. Throughout, staff could see it visually and hear the first cub squealing, and Mei never set it down. Staff retrieved the motionless cub with a grabbing device. It was immediately evident that the cub had developmental abnormalities and wasn’t fully formed. It was never alive. A necropsy is underway, and the Zoo will provide additional information tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Mei's first cub continues to do well.

I hope things will continue to go well for Mei and her baby. Sad about the other one.

And though I am a mere piker at this and I'm not fit to even carry Donna's sandal straps, this is my 500th post!   

Congrats, Pat!