PARENTING, PANDERING PANDA, NATIONAL ZOO,

In pictures: Baby animal love story




A pair of Sumatran tiger cubs and a set of young orang-utans, all abandoned at birth, have become inseparable after sharing a room at an Indonesian zoo.


The four have lived side by side for a month without a hitch, although this goes against their natural instincts.


"This is unusual and would never happen in the wild," zookeeper Sri Suwarni said. "Like human babies, they only want to play."


But the friendship is not destined to last as tigers start eating meat when they are three months old and will need to be separated from their new playmates.
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China extends panda cub‘s stay in D.C.
Staff and agencies
24 April, 2007




By LUBNA TAKRURI, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo‘s popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.

Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong presented the zoo with a giant green laminated passport to extend Tai Shan‘s stay.

The cub, now 125 pounds, took a few bites of a celebratory "cake," made of his favorite orange Popsicle and chopped fruit, before the cake rolled down a hill. He soon had both paws on it again and was chomping away.

An estimated 2.25 million visitors have gone to the zoo to see the cub since his public debut in December 2005.

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