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Zoo panda cub gets name 'Son of Cloud'

The cub was born on Aug. 5

Updated: Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 5:46 AM MST
Published : Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 5:46 AM MST

    SAN DIEGO (AP) - Out of 6,300 suggestions, San Diego Zoo managers have chosen a name for a baby panda born this summer.

    Zoo officials on Tuesday announced that the 3-month-old black-and-white ball of fur will be called Yun Zi, which is Chinese for "Son of Cloud."

    The cub was born on Aug. 5 but wasn't named for 100 days to follow Chinese tradition.

    Yun Zi is the fifth cub born to the zoo's 300-pound mother panda whose name means "White Cloud."

    He's only the 14th panda in the United States, including five in San Diego.

    Yun Zi weighed about 4 ounces when he was born but now weighs more than 10 pounds.

    His birth was posted on the zoo blog and a "panda cam" that allowed people to see the cub in a zoo den was so popular that it briefly crashed.

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