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‘Baby’ no more! Red pandas at Winnipeg zoo named

WATCH: The red pandas at the zoo were officially named. – Sep 15, 2017

Winnipeggers have voted and the red pandas born this summer at the Assiniboine Park Zoo now have names.

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The boy cub will now be called Suva, meaning ‘good luck’ in Nepali, and his sister has been named Tanvi, meaning ‘delicate girl’.

The Assiniboine Park Zoo revealed the names for the cubs Friday. Randall Paull/Global News

The siblings were born June 13 but before they were named the Zoo turned to the public for help.

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Using names provided by its zookeepers the public was asked to vote online.

International Red Panda day is Sept. 16.  Free red panda zipper pulls are being handed out to visitors at the zoo this weekend.

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