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[00:01.00]BOB DOUGHTY:A rare Chinese red panda has been born at the Red River Zoo in Fargo,North Dakota.
[00:09.41]Officials there say the birth is believed to be the first at a North Dakota zoo.
[00:16.17]The Red River Zoo opened last year.
[00:19.83]The cub's mother is a female red panda called Tsaka,which means mountain in Tibetan.Its father is named Chang.
[00:31.79]Keepers at the zoo were surprised to discover that Tsaka had given birth in June.
[00:39.00]They did not announce the birth until they were sure the panda cub would survive.
[00:45.85]Zoo officials believe the cub is probably male.They have named it Liwu which means gift in Mandarin Chinese.
[00:58.28]About fifty Chinese red pandas live in zoos in the western part of the world.
[01:06.67]In the United States,the Knoxville Zoo in the state of Tennessee is best known for its programs to help red pandas reproduce.
[01:19.70]More pandas have been born there than at any other zoo in the country.
[01:26.81]SARAH LONG:The red panda is a small member of the animal family that includes the larger and more famous giant panda.
[01:37.05]The red panda is similar in size and appearance to a raccoon.
[01:43.89]Red pandas are known for their soft fur and long thick tails.
[01:50.40]Panda cubs are very small when they are born.
[01:55.05]They weigh about two-hundred grams when they are one week old.
[02:00.79]When cubs are three months old,they start to look like adult pandas.Adults weigh about four kilograms.
[02:10.88]BOB DOUGHTY:The red panda lives in the Himalayan Mountains in Nepal,Bhutan,Burma and southern China.
[02:21.12]It is difficult to know for sure how many red pandas live in the wild.
[02:27.39]That is because the bamboo forests where they live are very thick.
[02:34.23]However,there is increasing evidence that the red panda is becoming endangered.
[02:41.41]The major threats to pandas are said to be the loss of their native forests and illegal hunting.
[02:50.30]For example,widespread cutting of forests for wood and farmland in China has destroyed large areas of the pandas'environment.
