This is Hao Hao, a giant panda on loan to the Pairi Daiza Zoo in Belgium, recently gave birth to a single male cub.
I am posting this photo to show how amazingly underdeveloped baby pandas are.Pandas engage in delayed implantation, in which the actual development of the fetus doesn’t happen until well after conception. Because of this factor, giant pandas have wildly variable gestation periods, which can be anywhere from 90 to 160 days.
The cubs are born looking nothing like their parents– more like white amorphous blobs with fuzz on them.
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The baby has a long tail, but adult pandas don’t– ?
Yep. Pandas have a bit more tail than other bears, but the newborns have a lot more tail in proportion to their body than the adults do.
Pandas are just weird all around. =P
Very nice post!