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Article: Ling-Ling Bamboozles Zoo With Twins; One Panda Cub Was Stillborn; Survivor Is Healthy, Noisy
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- The Washington Post
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- June 25, 1987
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Ling-Ling's newborn giant panda cub remained in good health and
locked in its mother's embrace yesterday even as red-faced officials
at the National Zoo announced they had discovered the body of a
second cub, apparently stillborn, that had gone undetected in all the
excitement of Tuesday's successful birth.
"Ling-Ling had twins," said Benjamin Beck, the zoo's general
curator. Watching the birth on a closed-circuit television monitor,
"we simply did not see and could not see when it was born, but we
think it was just before the live birth," he said.
The dead cub was spotted Tuesday afternoon by a keeper who was
walking past Ling-Ling's enclosure in the Panda House after feeding
her ...