The Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Park made a rare juvenile female Ailuropoda melanoleuca available for public observation today, and hundreds of researchers participated. Review of preliminary field notes indicates wide agreement that the specimen is a widdle bitty roly-poly fuzzy-wuzzy cutise-wootsie-poo.
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“Bao Bao, the National Zoo’s giant panda cub, makes her public debut,” Carol Morello, Washington Post
“Bao Bao Meets Her Adoring Public,” Sarah Anne Hughes, DCist
“So cute! Baby panda Bao Bao debuts at D.C. zoo,” Ashley M. Williams, USA Today
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