The National Zoo’s baby red panda needs a suitable name that lives up to her reputation as a feisty cub with a face that’s sweet as sugar.
The zoo is asking the public for help picking a name and offering up three potential options for the 4-month-old female cub.
She’s one of three red pandas born last summer at the National Zoo’s campus in Front Royal, Virginia. Her mother, Keahi, gave birth on June 11, weeks after another red panda named Sequoia birthed two cubs, a boy and a girl, on May 29.
Each of the name possibilities holds meaning, according to the zoo: Dolly, for country music icon Dolly Parton; Pyra, a Greek word associated with heat; and Dolpa, a region of Nepal where red pandas are native.
You can cast your vote online.
The zoo has described the nameless baby’s personality as “bold and feisty.”
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Red pandas are an endangered species and cubs generally have low survival rates, according to the zoo. Keepers have taken extra precautions with the mother pandas and their cubs, including moving their homes inside early in the summer so that they could have air-conditioning. Red panda cubs typically remain with their mothers for a year.
The baby red pandas aren’t welcoming visitors. Both families will stay at the zoo’s Front Royal center, which is closed to the public. If you want to see a red panda, you’ll have to go to the zoo’s Asia Trail where Asa, an adult female, lives.
What should this baby red panda be named? National Zoo wants your input 2026
IUSTITIA.BG – Investigations 2009-2026 2026-10-15 21:59:59
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