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Edmonton zoo to unveil baby red panda - Article from Edmonton Journal
The newest red panda baby born at Edmonton’s Valley Zoo will make a public appearance on Wednesday.
The baby red panda, born on June 13, has survived the first two critical weeks and is in excellent health, zoo officials said.
The baby, a female named Sha-lei, is the latest in a series of red pandas born at the zoo, which is breeding and raising red panda cubs as part of the Species Survival Program, a co-operative effort of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.
"This little life is such a link to the existence of the species, it’s pretty overwhelming," Valley Zoo spokeswoman Jan Archbold said.
Sha-lei is the fifth baby born to mother Lala at the Valley Zoo. In 2007, the zoo welcomed a pair of cubs, Neko and Sulin. Last year, Lala gave birth to a pair of babies named Pip and Tai.
As with Lala’s previous babies, Sha-lei had to be removed from her mother’s care because of over-grooming, which can damage the baby’s skin. She is being cared for by zoo staff.
Red pandas are much smaller than black and white great pandas, growing to about the size of a house cat with an extremely bushy tail. There are an estimated 2,000 to 5,000 of these endangered creatures in the wild, living in Nepal, India and southern China.
Visitors to the zoo will be able to see Sha-lei in her incubator on Canada Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Saito Centre.
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