{"id":334698,"date":"2025-12-08T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334698\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:20:08","slug":"the-first-giant-panda-cub-born-in-indonesia-squeals-and-squirms-in-park-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334698\/","title":{"rendered":"The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia squeals and squirms in park video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">JAKARTA, Indonesia &#8212; The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other signs of good health, the conservation park where he was born said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Indonesian Safari Park released video and photos showing the fuzzy newborn in an incubator and squirming and squealing while being cuddled by his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The mother, 15-year-old Hu Chun, gave birth to Satrio Wiratama \u2014 nicknamed Rio \u2014 on Nov. 27 at the park in Cisarua, West Java province. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The name symbolizes the hope, resilience, and shared commitment of Indonesia and China in protecting endangered species, the park said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced the baby panda\u2019s name Thursday and showed his photo when he met Wang Huning, a top Chinese political adviser and leading ideologist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rio is stable and showing healthy early signs such as strong vocalization, effective nursing and steady weight gain while being monitored constantly. He is expected to develop better temperature control, fur growth, open his eyes and move more in the next several weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The conservation park said it was prioritizing the health and welfare of the mother and baby and he would not yet be accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The adult pandas, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/867a183e2dd84c5e9bc1793bb3926050\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cai Tao and Hu Chun<\/a>, arrived in Indonesia in 2017 on a 10-year conservation partnership with China. They live in an enclosure built for them at the park about 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pandas are widely considered as China&#8217;s unofficial mascot and its loans of the animals to overseas zoos have long been seen as a tool of Beijing\u2019s soft-power diplomacy, also known as \u201cpanda diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Giant pandas have difficulty breeding and births are particularly welcomed. There are less than 1,900 giant pandas in their only wild habitats in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAKARTA, Indonesia &#8212; The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[186810,1313,4225,64,63,112869,482,66110,1625,128,338,1346],"class_list":{"0":"post-334698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-186810","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-environmental-conservation","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-giant-pandas","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-wildlife","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}