San Diego Zoo veterinarians Karen Kearns (right) and Karen Lisi perform a routine health exam on the Zoo's male panda cub, at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station, September 18, 2003. The Zoo vets determined the cub's health to be in great shape as they checked his heart rate and collected body measurements. The unnamed cub currently weighs 34 ounces and is 11.5 inches long. [Reuters]

Meg Sutherland-Smith, senior veterinarian at the San Diego Zoo, applies a stethoscope to the zoo's three-week-old panda during a routine examination on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station. The zoo's veterinary staff conducted its second exam on the cub and confirmed that it is a male, saying the panda now weighs 19 ounces, measures 10 inches long and is in very good health. [Reuters]

Bai Yun, the San Diego Zoo's female giant panda, cradles her new born cub (within yellow square) in the panda birthing den August 19, 2003. Bai Yun made world history in August, 1999 when she gave birth to Hua Mei, the first giant panda cub to be born and survive in the United States. [Reuters]

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