'Precious' reaches her first birthday
By Associated Press in Washington | China Daily | Updated: 2014-08-25 06:58
The National Zoo in Washington threw a party on Saturday in honor of the first birthday of panda cub Bao Bao.
To celebrate, the cub got a cake made from frozen fruit juice and other treats like pears and apples. Bao Bao is only the second panda born at the zoo to survive to her first birthday.
The cub's only sibling, brother Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and returned to China in 2010. Panda keeper Nicole MacCorkle said that as a baby, Bao Bao has been different from her brother, including being a little more standoffish with keepers.
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