Baby panda's first moments caught on camera

An Austrian zoo used Big Brother-style camera to produce these amazing images of the moment when a giant panda Yang Yang welcome her newborn baby into the world. Vets at the Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna installed a special video system to watch the birth in a special nest inside the panda enclosure.

The cub - who weighs less than two ounces and is just six inches long - is seen crawling along mum Yang Yang's tummy before she picks it up tenderly in her mouth, which is part of the bonding process.



Panda specialist Eveline Dungl said: "We watched the mother in labour by means of a video camera and didn't take our eyes off her until we knew she had accepted her baby."

Now zoo bosses plan to close the panda enclosure to visitors to give the cub - as yet unnamed - more time to bond with mum. "A lot of young pandas die in their first year so we are keeping a very close eye on this," said a zoo spokesman.