Giant panda gives birth to giant cub

A giant panda has broken two records in China by by giving birth to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period in labour, an exhausting 34 hours.



Six-year-old Zhang Ka delivered the baby, the second born in captivity in the world this year, on Monday at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in the mountainous southwest.

The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but still became the heaviest panda ever born in captivity, where most cubs are born weighing between 83 and 190 grams.

It is very rare for them to be even near 200 grams.