Watch: This newborn giant panda baby is the world’s lightest – and weighs less than an egg
The 42.8-gm cub was born to Cheng Da, a resident of a panda breeding research base in southwest China.
Giant panda Cheng Da gave birth to female twins at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on June 11, 2019. As the lightest known newborn giant panda, the younger cub weighs only 42.8g. May you grow up healthy, little baby, and we believe in miracles!
— iPanda (@ipandacom) June 14, 2019
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The world’s lightest giant panda cub was born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China.
At 42.8 gm, the giant panda baby is lighter than an egg, two-thirds the size of, and less than one-fourth the weight of, her twin sister who measured 171.9 gm at birth.
The two babies, who will grow to a weight between 70 and 100 kg, were born to Cheng Da, a resident of the research base in Chengdu, which is the capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
I heard that I am the lightest known new-born giant panda due to my weight of 42.8g? Although I am so tiny, I am strong!
— iPanda (@ipandacom) June 14, 2019
聽說咱以42.8g的初生體重榮獲“全球最小大熊貓幼仔”的稱號？別看咱個頭小，氣勢不能丟!#PandaNews pic.twitter.com/sKKh98HXYM
Before the cub’s birth, the world’s lightest panda cub was Wuyi, weighing 51 grams when he was born in 2006 at the Chengdu research base. Wuyi now weighs 132 kg, reported Chinese news agency, Xinhua.