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In a refreshing bit of good news out of Washington, Mei Xiang, the giant panda matriarch of the Smithsonian's National Zoo, gave birth to a cub Friday and immediately began cradling and caring for it, zoo officials said.
At 22, Mei Xiang is the oldest giant panda to successfully give birth in the United States. The oldest in the world was 23. Already a mother to three cubs that survived, Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated by zookeepers back in March with sperm from Tian Tian, her male counterpart at the National Zoo.
All three currently live in China as part of an agreement with wildlife officials there, and under the zoo's current agreement, all cubs born in Washington are sent to China around age 4.
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