Two babies...

I love the beluga whales at the Vancouver Aquarium and was thrilled to hear of the successful birth of a female the other day. Then I noticed a story in the Telegraph about a baby panda born in the Chiang Mai zoo in Thailand. I'm quite sure they didn't have pandas in this zoo when I was in Chiang Mai as I'm sure we would have gone to see them. The first pandas I saw were in the San Diego zoo. Amazing the difference in these two babies in terms of development but I guess if you are born in the water you need to be fairly developed to survive.

The baby panda is about 6-7 inches long and weighs about 7 ounces. In this photo the mother has the baby in her mouth.



The baby beluga is over 4 feet long and weighs 110 pounds.