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A Dutch cat nursing her own kittens has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its mother, the Artis zoo in Amsterdam said.
The panda's mother, Gladys, rejected her two cubs after they were born on June 30.
"She left them there, lying in the cold," said spokesman Bart Kret.
The zoo initially kept the cubs in an incubator. But a keeper's tabby cat had just given birth to four kittens, and let the two panda cubs join the crowd.
One of the cubs was too weak and died last Friday. The surviving cub is still smaller than the kittens, who were born three days before her.
If she survives to be an adult, she will be slightly larger than a cat.
