Here is an excerpt from NatGeo's News Watch November 2009:
"One hundred days old today and weighing in at 12.5 pounds, San Diego Zoo's panda cub marked a milestone. The male cub is two feet long from head to tail. Following Chinese tradition, pandas go unnamed until they reach 100 days, the zoo said. To announce the panda's official name, the zoo will host a public naming ceremony on Tuesday."
His name is Yun Zi and still resides with his mom, Bai Yun, at the San Diego Zoo.
Photo taken November 12, 2009, by Ken Bohn, San Diego Zoo.
After reading this blurb, we just realized that Kalista is almost the same size as a panda cub. She is currently weighing in at 11 pounds, 6 ounces and is about 24 inches (two feet) in length. How ironic!
Are you ready for the unveiling of Kalista's Chinese name?
Here it is...
林
韻
玲
Lam Wen Ling
(Pronounced Lum-Wun-Ling)
(Pronounced Lum-Wun-Ling)
what does her chinese name mean? I didn't know about this tradition...oops! but K still has one too, something about a joyful wind or melody or something. i guess that's what I get for being american born huh?
ReplyDeletecongrats kalista on your 100th day birthday! keep up the fight big girl!
auntie jamie
Us being American born Chinese too, we were told Wen means "melodious rhyme" and Ling is from Matt's mom's name.
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