No baby panda for the National Zoo this year
Submitted on August 13, 2008 - 11:26am.
Audrie Garrison - Summer 2008
[img_assist|nid=6795|title=Click on photo to enlarge or download|desc=National Zoo giant panda Mei Xiang sleeps in her indoor habitat in July when zoo officials thought she might be pregnant. SHFWire photo by Audrie Garrison |link=popup|align=right|width=250|height=188]WASHINGTON - Mei Xiang, the National Zoo's female panda, will not give birth this year, zoo officials announced Wednesday.
Zoo scientists believe the panda might have been pregnant and lost the fetus early in the pregnancy, according to a zoo press release.
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