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Why zookeepers don’t want a mother panda to know she had twins

Posted by / August 22, 2018

At first, this story seems like something a cartoon super villain would do. Why would zookeepers trick a panda into thinking she just had one cub instead of two? As it turns out, about half of all panda births are twins. Unfortunately, most twin births end up with one dead cub. Pandas generally abandon one of the twins, leaving them to die––perhaps because they don’t have the milk or the energy to deal with two. That’s why this panda’s keepers play a shell game with this mother panda, swapping the cubs out every few hours to get fed.

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