National Zoo Celebrating Panda's 1st Birthday
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Zoo in Washington is throwing a panda party.
Saturday marks the first birthday of panda cub Bao Bao. She'll get a cake made from frozen fruit juice and other treats like pears and apples to celebrate. The cub is only the second panda born at the zoo to survive to her first birthday.
Bao Bao's only sibling, brother Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and returned to China in 2010. Panda keeper Nicole MacCorkle says Bao Bao has been a different baby from her brother, including a little more stand-offish with keepers.
In the past year she has grown from a wriggling pink newborn a little bigger than a stick of butter to a 44-pound black-and-white bundle whose favorite activity is sleeping in a tree.
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