Orléans: Huan Huan, a giant panda with a loan to France by Beijing since 2012, pregnant again and can immediately refer to the country with the second child, Beauval Zoo in Central France said Tuesday.
“Ultrasonography a few hours ago confirmed the presence of the Panda embryo,” said AFP spokesman, added that birth can occur later this month or in early August.
Panda reproduction, in captivity or in the wild, it is very difficult because hot female pandas are only once a year for around 48 hours.
Huan Huan and his partner Yuan Zi, star attractions in Beauval Zoo Officials were happy in March when they managed to make “contacts”, when they put it down, eight times on weekends.
Veterinarians also do artificial insemination, just to make sure.
The technique was used in Huan Huan for the birth of his first Cub, Yuan Meng, in 2017, the first panda was born in France.
Now it grows around the size of his mother, he will be sent this year to China, where around 2,000 pandas live in the wild and 500 are further in captivity.
The number of pandas around the world has rebounded since the black-and-white bear was declared an endangered animal in the 1980s, thanks to the efforts to protect it and his habitat.
The period of pregnancy varies from three to five months.