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BEIJING — For the first time, a giant panda cub has been born in China after being conceived using frozen sperm, officials announced Friday — an innovation scientists hope will help the endangered species avoid extinction.
The cub’s birth Thursday means breeders will no longer be forced to rely on semen from China’s few virile males and might even be able to bring in sperm from zoos in San Diego, Mexico City or elsewhere.
The cub, born to You You, a female panda at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan, is the 10th born at the breeding facility this year.
