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Zoo Atlanta ’s new panda cub is a male child and he ’s in the end start to look like a panda .

The Zoo ’s veterinary squad began examiningthe cublast hebdomad when Lun Lun , the greenhorn ’s female parent , set out leaving him for brief period while she ate and drink . The newborn weighs just over 11 ounces ( 311 grams ) .

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Hey big boy! Zoo Atlanta’s new cub gets a checkup.

With each daylight , the panda cub looks more like a coon bear . His raw pink physical body has begun pullulate hair and darken with his species ' earmark grim saddles on the shoulders and black patches over the eyes , which have yet to spread .

Lun Lun , the 13 - year - honest-to-god giant panda female give nascency to the cub , her third , on Nov. 3 . The new baby panda is the only jumbo panda bear in the United States in 2010 .

Lun Lun and the cub will debut to the public sometime in spring 2011 . Before then , watch mom and son on the zoo’sPandaCam , Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT .

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Hey big boy! Zoo Atlanta’s new cub gets a checkup.

It’s nap time for the sleepy new panda cub.

It’s nap time for the sleepy new panda cub.

A photograph of three baby western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoises recently hatched at Philadelphia Zoo.

A female polar bear and two cubs lie in the snow surrounded by scrubby plants.

A photograph of Mommy, a 100-year-old tortoise at Philadelphia Zoo.

Screenshot from a video of a family of four snow leopards prowling through the snow in the mountains of northern Pakistan.

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A panda in the forest eats bamboo

Tai Shan was born at 3:41 a.m. July 9, 2005, weighing only a few ounces at birth. The first cub for mother Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) and father Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN), he was conceived through artificial insemination March 11, 2005, in a procedure perfor

Tai Shan (tie-SHON) was born at 3:41 a.m. July 9, 2005, weighing only a few ounces at birth. The first cub for mother Mei Xiang (may-SHONG) and father Tian Tian (tee-YEN tee-YEN), he was conceived through artificial insemination March 11, 2005, in a proce

Giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian in 2008.

Twin panda cub brothers snuggle up at Zoo Atlanta, and now they have names: Mei Lun (may loon) and Mei Huan (may hwaan).

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Pelican eel (Eurypharynx) head.