The newborn panda at Tokyo Zoo died

The first newborn panda in the past 24 years in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, died on the morning of July 11 for pneumonia, a week after the panda's birth was received by Japanese public opinion. warm.

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According to Ueno zoo officials, the male panda's cry was heard at 7:30 am on July 11, but an employee found him lying face down on Shin Shin's mother's stomach about an hour later. Heart failure and respiratory failure.

The doctors tried to rescue him but failed and the young panda died at 8:30 am.

Afterwards, surgery was performed and breast milk was discovered and this caused pneumonia.

Mother panda is holding baby panda in arms.

At a press conference at the Tokyo prefecture office, the leader of the panda watchdog, Mr. Yutaka Fukuda said: 'The health of both mother and baby bears is very good on July 10 . Regrettable.' This unnamed birth was born on July 5 and was the first baby panda to be born naturally in the past 130 years of the Ueno zoo.

Before that, the Ueno zoo had put the baby bear in the incubator on July 7 after the mother of Shin Shin stopped holding him, but the bear had given him food on July 9 after returning to her mother.

Mr. Fukuda insisted that returning the bear to his mother was "the right decision" because people could not care much better than the mother bear.

Before this bad news, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on July 11 shared: 'It's sad. I am looking forward to seeing the big bear, " said Ueno zoo director Toshimitsu Doi. " In my life, I experienced many sorrows before the deaths of animals. But this time, the staff members. It was all night to take care of the bear " . The zoo staff almost changed their shifts to monitor the baby panda 24 hours a day.

In 1972, China sent two big pandas - Kang Kang and Lan Lan - to Ueno Zoo on the occasion of normalizing Sino-Japanese relations. Since then, three baby pandas have been born in this zoo by artificial insemination between 1985 and 1988 but one of them died just one week after birth.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Vi Dan said he regretted the death of the baby panda while many Japanese people expected him to grow up.