{"id":334856,"date":"2025-12-08T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334856\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:06:08","slug":"the-first-giant-panda-cub-born-in-indonesia-squeals-and-squirms-in-park-video-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334856\/","title":{"rendered":"The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia squeals and squirms in park video"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2014 The first giant panda cub<\/a> born in Indonesia<\/a> is noisy, nursing well and showing other signs of good health, the conservation park where he was born said Sunday.<\/p>\n

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

The mother, 15-year-old Hu Chun, gave birth to Satrio Wiratama \u2014 nicknamed Rio \u2014 on Nov. 27 at Taman Safari Indonesia in Cisarua, West Java province.<\/p>\n

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

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto<\/a> 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

\"HuHu Chun, a 15-year-old female giant panda, with her cub, nicknamed Rio.Taman Safari Indonesia \/ via AP<\/p>\n

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 and fur growth, open his eyes and move more in the next several weeks.<\/p>\n

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

The adult pandas, Cai Tao and Hu Chun, 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 40 miles from Jakarta, the capital.<\/p>\n

Pandas are widely considered as China\u2019s unofficial mascot<\/a> 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<\/a><\/p>\n

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 \u2014 The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-334856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334856","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=334856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}