TOKYO: Tokyo’s newest baby panda, who is just beginning to crawl and has now lived long enough to get a name, will be called “Xiang Xiang”, to evoke the image of petals unfurling, the governor of the Japanese capital, Yuriko Koike, said.
Japan celebrated the birth of the healthy female cub in June, five years after her mother, Shin Shin, lost another cub within days of its birth.
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