smithsonian national zoo

"A precious giant panda cub has arrived!" overjoyed officials announce in a tweet Friday. Mei Xiang is caring for the newborn "attentively."

"It's one thing to potentially mess with my tax return, but it's something a whole lot worse to mess with my panda cam," one fan lamented to NPR.

Whetu, an almost 4-month-old brown kiwi at the Smithsonian Conservation Biological Institute, is the first female born to her parents. She enjoys staying up all night, eating worms and burrowing.