Female panda born at Wakayama zoo in western Japan

A female giant panda was born at a zoo in Wakayama Prefecture, the western Japan facility's operator said Wednesday, the first new cub born there in about two years.Mother panda Rauhin, 17, gave birth Tuesday morning at the Adventure World zoo in the town of Shirahama. The cub is only 15.5 centimeters long, weighing 75 grams, and has been placed in an incubator, the zoo said.The cub, Rauhin's smallest at birth, is much more diminutive than Yuihin, the last panda born at the zoo. Yuihin weighed 197 grams when born in 2016.The newborn cub has only been taking shallow breaths and cannot feed f…READ FULL ARTICLE