Aww. The smaller of the two panda cubs born to Mei Xiang at the National Zoo earlier this month has died:
We are sad to report that the smaller of the two panda cubs has died. We will continue to provide updates on social media w/ #Pandastory.
— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) August 26, 2015
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One of the baby pandas just died.https://t.co/dSDuiCf6s4
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) August 26, 2015
From the National Zoo’s Facebook page:
The zoo posted yesterday that the cub was considered “high-risk”:
Haven’t been able to swap cubs since 2p 8/24.Mei has larger cub.Smaller cub’s behaviors are good;still high-risk time pic.twitter.com/FrEG2lYfEz
— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) August 25, 2015
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