One of the baby pandas at the National Zoo has died

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

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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