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Panda cub is girl, not boy, surprised zoo keepers find

December 23, 2022
RHENEN - Ouwehands Dierenpark is een dierentuin in Rhenen in de Nederlandse provincie Utrecht. Het is gebouwd op de Laarschenberg aan de oostzijde van de stad. ROBIN UTRECHT animal animal park animal parks atraction autumn behaviors behaviour dierenpark dierenparken dierentuin dierentuinen enrichment feest gedrag gedragingen giant giant panda giant pandas management nature nature management natuurbeheer ouwehands ouwehands dierenpark panda panda’s pandas park parks party predator predators reuzenpanda reuzenpanda’s roofdier roofdieren tractatie traktatie treat verrijking wen wu wu wen xing xing ya ya zoo zoos
Fan Xing, Photo: Ouwehands Zoo

The giant panda cub born at Ouwehands Dierenpark in 2020 is a girl, not a boy as previously thought, the zoo has said.

‘Fan Xing has surprised us all,’ zoologist José Kok said. ‘We thought she was male to start with but a later medical control showed she was, in fact, female.’

Kok explained that the initial check had to be done quickly so as not to separate mother and cub for too long. ‘It is notoriously difficult to establish the sex of a panda,’ she said.

Fan Xing is part of a panda breeding programme and that will not change, the zoo management said, except Fan Xing will have more of an active role. Fan Xing is due to return to China in the near future.

On Saturday at 7pm NPO1 will broad ‘Het echte leven in de dierentuin’ (real life at the zoo) on Saturday which features Fan Xing’s progress so far.

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