{"id":230961,"date":"2026-01-06T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:51:07","slug":"indonesias-panda-cub-rio-thriving-40-days-after-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230961\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia&#8217;s panda cub Rio thriving 40 days after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CISARUA, Indonesia &#8212; Indonesia\u2019s conservation park on Tuesday released a video showing the progress of a giant panda cub, 40 days after his birth in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The panda named <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/indonesia-china-panda-cub-newborn-taman-safari-b78e0f1710e433c0dea06239eb9c6e50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Satrio Wiratama<\/a> and nicknamed \u201cRio\u201d was examined for the first time outside the incubator while veterinarians at the Indonesian Taman Safari park in Cisarua, West Java province, took his measures. The video shows Rio&#8217;s growth from a tiny pink baby to a panda with black and white fur. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThe panda cub is developing healthily and growing very well. Its body weight has increased by 46% over the past 30 days, while its body length has increased by 95%,&#8221; said Bongot Huaso Mulia, a veterinarian who monitors Rio\u2019s progress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rio was born on Nov. 27 to Hu Chun, a 15-year-old adult female, and Cai Tao. The pair <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\">arrived in Indonesia<\/a> 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 \">Rio\u2019s birth was the result of the fourth artificial insemination, said Mulia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cSo we tried natural mating four times first, followed by four rounds of artificial insemination. It really was not easy,\u201d Mulia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pandas are widely considered as China\u2019s unofficial mascot and its loans of the animals to overseas zoos have long been seen as a tool of Beijing\u2019s soft-power \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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">\u201cThis is the moment we\u2019ve been waiting for. After years of hard work, finally we\u2019ve got real. The baby panda, joining the global panda family,\u201d China\u2019s Ambassador to Indonesia Wang Lutong said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CISARUA, Indonesia &#8212; Indonesia\u2019s conservation park on Tuesday released a video showing the progress of a giant panda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[118209,264,1597,1594,1595,63541,61,60,82,263,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-230961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-118209","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-climate-and-environment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-giant-pandas","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife","18":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}