NZP Initiates Giant Panda Birth Watch
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PrintThe National Zoo initiates a "birth watch" on Giant Panda Ling-Ling. The watch, which was conducted by 95 Friends of the National Zoo volunteers working three hour shifts, day and night. The watch is ended at 7 a.m. on December 31, 1985, after scientists reviewing hormonal and behavioral data from other Panda pregnancies determined that a birth this season would be unlikely. Ling-Ling and the male panda, Hsing-Hsing, bred over a three-day period in late June and early July.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," February 1986, p. 2.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
October 31, 1985