Mommy cat adopts baby red panda
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This is another zoo baby story - but with a different twist.
Now, this zoo story, as reported by msnbc, concerns a baby red panda in the Netherlands. Like many zoo babies before her who were born in captivity, her mom didn’t know how to handle a baby - and rejected her and her sibling. The 2 little panda cubs were first kept in an incubator. Then a zookeeper’s tabby cat gave birth to 4 kittens and adopted the 2 cubs. Unfortunately, one of the cubs was too weak and died this week, but one is still alive and she is drinking nicely from her adapted mother. The zoo hopes that she makes it up to her 3rd month when she can start eating solid food - bamboo and fruit.
The red panda lives in China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Burma. Like its distant relative the giant panda, it is also an endangered species.
There’s been a lot of zoo baby stories in Europe lately. There were the polar bears Knut (Berlin Zoo) and Flocke (Nuremberg Zoo) who had to be bottle fed when their respective moms rejected them. Then there is the lucky Wilbär (pronounced as Wilbear) whose mommy knew how to raise a cub in captivity. My twin boys had the privilege to see him in Stuttgart the last time they visited Great-granny in June. The little cub is up, running and swimming.
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