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Cute-Seekers Overload Zoo's Panda Cam

by Kendra Cunningham on August 11, 2009 at 06:58 AM


The birth of a baby panda at the San Diego zoo attracted so many online viewers (perhaps one-upping the panda sneeze) that the zoo's webcam-feed up and crashed

Three-hundred-pound panda mom Bai Yun gave birth to a 4-ounce cub last Wednesday in front of a streaming webcam at the San Diego Zoo. Baby animals are always exciting (apparent after the Webby-award-nominated Shiba Inu puppy cam changed our lives), but the Internet may not be able to handle the fervor. Last Thursday, the video feed crashed as a mob of cute-seekers clicked to watch the one-day-old panda cub, the AP reported.


Jenny Mehlow, a zoo spokesperson, told the AP that the webcam was down for 30 minutes and the blogs were down until Friday.

The video of the birth (largely silent aside from some high-pitched whines) features the mother picking up her cub and, according to the zoo, beginning to nurse it. According to the AP, this is Bai Yun's fifth cub and the 14th panda in the United States. [From: AP]

Tags: baby panda, BabyPanda, blog, panda, panda cam, PandaCam, san diego, SanDiego, zoo

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