Reply to "Baby Panda SuLin"

I found some more information on Panda SuLin on "Animal Planet News." Some of it is the same, but not all of it, so I wanted to share it with you:

Nov. 11, 2005 — A giant panda cub born at the San Diego Zoo 100 days ago has been christened Su Lin, which in Chinese means "a little bit of something very cute," officials said Thursday.

The young female, whose mother is on loan from China, was named after the first giant panda cub brought to the United States and was picked by an online vote of residents of San Diego.

"Between the arrival of the first Su Lin in our country in 1936 and the birth of the second one in 2005, history has not been kind to pandas, with only about 1,600 individuals left in the world today," said Don Lindburg, the San Diego Zoo's giant panda team leader.

"But like the two cubs born here before her, the new Su Lin dramatizes the importance of working to make the world more secure for wild populations," Lindburg said.