February 23, 2000 (6 months, 2 days) Hua Mei likes to sleep in some branches about 8 feet above the ground, but, by the beginning of March, she's been seen climbing to over twice that height.
[ March 10, 2000 (6 months, 17 days) The previous evening, Hua Mei decided to spend the night sleeping outside on a branch for the first time, even after Bai Yun went inside. Bai Yun came back out and tried to get Hua Mei to climb down, but the baby panda refused. So Bai Yun spent the night outside with her.
February 22, 2001 (1 year, 6 months, 1 day) o/~ Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset o/~ Hua Mei and Bai Yun spend their last day together because Hua Mei is now old enough to live alone like adult pandas do. Tomorrow, she will be placed in her own exhibit area, and Bai Yun will be ready to try to have another baby.
August 21, 2001 (2 years old) Hua Mei celebrates her second birthday with a cake made out of ice, bamboo, and carrots starting with a big number two made out of ice. She weighs almost 150 pounds, which is still 70 pounds less than Bai Yun, and eats 15 pounds of bamboo each day.
July 10, 2002 (2 years, 10 months, 19 days) Hua Mei plays in artificial snow made from eighteen tons of crushed ice. The zoo believes in enriching the animals' lives by varying their environments and thinking up new activities for them.
August 21, 2002 (3 years old) Hua Mei celebrates another birthday with three bamboo candles on a cake made out of vegetables and ice. The San Diego Zoo's original twelve year agreement with the Chinese government said that any babies born to Bai Yun and Shi Shi would be returned to China on their third birthday. But the Chinese have not yet asked for custody.
October 18, 1995 (1 month, 18 days old): A veterinarian bottle-feeds a baby panda inside an incubator at the Beijing Zoo because its mother, Yong Yong, has been unable to nurse it. This baby and its twin have passed the critical survival period and are expected to live by themselves in six months. Yong Yong has given birth five times to seven cubs, all of which have survived.
August 19, 1999 (1 day old): Triplets were born at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Unfortunately, the littlest one in the middle died two days later. Twins are not uncommon, but triplets are very rare.
December 22, 2000 (3 month, 10 days): The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in the Sichuan province of China has twin boy pandas named Chenggong and Chengji and twin girl pandas named Bingdian and Bingxin who are all one hundred days old today.
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