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Baby panda Hua Mei born at San Diego Zoo draws endangered status
Last August the San Diego Zoo welcomed Hua Mei, the first giant panda born outside China in a decade and the first in the U S to survive. Pandas face bleak numbers with about 1000 in the wild, scattered across six isolated habitats as bamboo dependence and habitat loss threaten their future. Hua Mei weighs six pounds at 45 days and is not named until 100 days, a Chinese tradition. Pandas feed 10 to 16 hours daily on bamboo, with 20 to 40 pounds needed daily, while their habitat and bamboo varieties have dwindled since the 1980s.
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