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22:49, 14-Aug-2017
Tokyo zoo panda passes 60-day milestone, still awaiting name
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The first panda born in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo in five years is growing well and has become "fluffy", the zoo said on Monday as it released fresh video footage of the two-month old.
The footage showed the unnamed cub being weighed and measured by keepers, napping, crawling and playing with her mother, Shin Shin.
The rare panda birth in June triggered a media frenzy and public excitement in Japan, with businesses keen to cash in.
The zoo had invited the public to name the cub, and to date has received some 250,000 submissions.
The name will be announced in September.
It will be another month before the cub is able to support her body weight on all four paws, zoo officials said.
Although her eyes are now open, she cannot see anything yet and only senses light.
Her mother had given birth to another cub in 2012－the zoo's first panda birth in 24 years－but it died from pneumonia six days later.
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Source(s): AFP