Female panda's insemination live-tweeted
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 20:30
in Biology & Nature
Spring is in the air, and baby panda-making is in the minds of zookeepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo — if not those of their panda charges. Zookeepers decided to artificially inseminate female giant panda Mei Xiang, at the Washington, D.C., zoo Monday, and live-tweeted the proceedings. It's the second try, after a first insemination Sunday.