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26

How do you get a Giant Panda to go to the doctor?

You just ask her!
Giant panda Mei Xiang has voluntarily cooperated during ultrasound procedures because of special training from animal keepers. However, she changed her mind early in August, so veterinary staff were unable to detect her fetus until she gave birth to a cub on August 23.

Watch more pandamonium on the National Zoo’s Panda Cam. >

Questions come alive at the Smithsonian. Seriously Amazing.

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Posted: 26 August 2013
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.