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Giant panda to become a mother

Updated: 2011-05-31 13:07

(Agencies)

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Giant panda to become a mother
Shuan Shuan, a 25-year-old female Giant Panda, chews a bamboo leaf given to her through the fence of her enclosure at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City May 30, 2011. Marta Delgado, Mexico's minister of environment, announced today in a news conference that Chinese reproduction specialists will travel to Mexico to inseminate Shuan Shuan and Xin Xin with semen obtained from panda bears in China. [Photo/Agencies]

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