Panda cub stars on public debut at Dutch zoo
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Fan Xing, a male giant panda who was born this spring in the Netherlands, showed himself to the world for the first time on Friday.
The happy parents are Wu Wen and Xing Ya, who China gifted to the Dutch royal family during a state visit to Beijing in 2015.
The pandas arrived in Ouwehands Dierenpark in 2017. As the the window for female fertility is small, with couples only able to conceive for a few days a year, it was unsure whether there would be any offspring.
But three years after the pandas' arrival, much to the surprise of the zoo, the female was pregnant.
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