スミソニアン国立動物園さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン国立動物園Instagram)「🐼👀 Did you spot our newborn giant panda on the kids edition of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt earlier this week? ❤️ Check out these sweet moments between Mei Xiang and her cub: https://s.si.edu/34LGekN. (Skip to 8:20 to see our #PandaStory!) . . . About Mei Xiang’s den: Bears in the wild, including giant pandas, give birth in small dens. In China's Wolong Reserve, pandas make their dens in large hollow conifer trees, with a diameter of about 3 feet. Where there aren't any trees, pandas den in caves with a little bedding of twigs. (Note: Our panda team provides Mei Xiang with bamboo, which she shreds and uses as bedding.) They stay in these dens for about the cub's first 100 days. . . . Zoo keepers strive to recreate these surroundings for Mei Xiang. She always has access to her larger enclosures, though for the first few months of the cub's life she will spend the vast majority of her time in the den with the cub.」8月31日 7時29分