The baby panda weighs merely one 1,000th of her mother's weight

Jul 12, 2013 20:51 GMT  ·  By
Baby giant panda born at Taipei Zoo is healthy, spends most of her time sleeping
   Baby giant panda born at Taipei Zoo is healthy, spends most of her time sleeping

On July 6, a female panda living at Taipei Zoo in Taiwan delivered an adorable baby girl. Shortly after birth, the panda cub was separated from her mother.

She is now being raised in a nursery incubator by zoo employees.

The tiny giant panda cub is extremely busy gulping down milk and sleeping as much as she can. Still, she has agreed to sit for a photo shoot, just to please her fans.

I doubt she's had the time to work on her pose in the mirror, so I'll just assume the smile she flashes at us in the picture above is all natural.

Zoo keepers say that the baby panda is healthy, but that she has a long way to go until she gets a figure as plump as that of her mother.

Apparently, the last time she got on a scale, she weighed only one 1,000th of her mother's weight, Zoo Borns reports.