On Friday, August 4, the first baby panda born on French soil was born! In reference to his dad, he was provisionally named Mini Yuan Zi. Back on a week between doubts and joy.
A first decisive week!
The parents weigh more than 200 kilos, but a week ago, they were stolen by 142 grams of mignonitude! 🙂 Huan Huan and Yuan Zi are, indeed, the happy parents of a small vigorous and full of life, which weighs more than 180g.
A good evolution in a week, although it was not so easy. Indeed, during his first 3 days, Mini Yuan Zi lost weight, as is often the case for newborns. But from now on, its weight is only increasing day by day ! OUF !
Huan Huan, Mother for the first time
Not easy to have her first baby! For the primiparous, the arrival of a first baby is not simple, let alone when it is a solitary species, which can not learn from a group, as is the case with gorillas by example. Our Mini Yuan Zi would have had little chance of surviving in the wild, because Huan Huan does not know very well how to deal with him. She is an emotional and caring mother. Despite this, she could not keep him warm in the first days and especially she did not know how to position him on his nipple. It took all the attention, the gentleness and the patience of our careful Chinese who, very delicately, positioned the baby through the bars, close to Huan Huan, so that he sucks his mother !! Alternating incubator, to maintain its temperature (ideally at 36.5 ° C) and give her baby bottles then back to her mother to suck.
Latest express information about #MiniYuanZi
Great news: Mini Yuan Zi was alone for the first time around 9:30 pm yesterday, Thursday. Its weight is 187.2 grams, this Friday, August 11 at 16:32.
And HuanHuan !?
As for the mother, she had somewhat lost appetite since giving birth: bamboo branches, bamboo powdered, honey, apple ... nothing was able to wake up his greediness! Again, this is a natural behavior, since in nature it would not leave its cave. Since 2 days, however, Huan Huan is once again eyeing young bamboo shoots with interest. This is a great news because, in addition to gaining energy, it will also produce a richer milk for Mini Yuan Zi, which still needs strength to grow well.
The Beauval and China care teams, as well as the veterinarians, have been with our pandas 24/24, 7/7/7 and are constantly monitoring their well-being.
A week full of emotions, with some worries but gradually dissipating before the behavior of Huan Huan and his child. It seems that both are beginning to find a rhythm of life together. It is a great joy for all our teams to see grow and evolve this little day to day! As for Yuan Zi, Papa, all this activity around his little family does not disrupt him in the least! He continues to live his life ... as he would in the mountains of Sichuan where it was long ago that he would have gone away from Huan Huan ...
In summary !
At 7 days, our Mini Yuan Zi is very toned, it has a good sleep, it is very reactive to the stimuli, it drinks 40 to 50 ml of milk per day, still needs to be stimulated to make its needs, is normal ! Even if it remains fragile, our little panda to all chances on his side to become as beautiful and strong as his dad! 🙂
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