Clumsy panda cub makes his debut

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LOOK AT ME, MUM: Fu Long gingerly explores the panda explosure at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo.

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CURIOUS: Five-month-old panda cub Du Long looks around behind his mother Yang Yang as it makes the first public appearance in the zoo in Vienna.

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Austria's newest attraction is a five-month-old panda named Fu Long.

The cub, whose name means Lucky Dragon in Chinese, created a spectacle when he appeared in public for the first time yesterday at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo.

Fu Long, who usually sleeps about 18 hours a day, delighted crowds as he explored the panda enclosure and fell over from time to time as he struggled to stand.

"He's so sweet, cute and clumsy," said Bettina Csenesits, a 21-year-old Vienna student, told the Associated Press. "I've always been a total panda fan."

The cub was born on August 23, 127 days after panda couple Yang Yang and Long Hui mated in April. The pandas were transferred from China to Schoenbrunn Zoo in 2003, and are on loan to Austria by China for a period of 10 years.

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