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US-ANIMALS-PANDA-BIRTHDAY

Bao Bao sits under the “fertility” poster while her mother Mei Xiang eats during a Zhuazhou birthday ceremony on her first birthday celebration at the National Zoo on August 23, 2014 in Washington, DC. During the Zhuazhou ceremony, a baby picks an symbolic object which will supposedly foretell her future. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN