No baby: Panda Tian Tian
15 October 2013
The UK's female giant panda Tian Tian is not expecting a cub, keepers have confirmed.
Experts at Edinburgh Zoo believe she was successfully inseminated but lost the foetus at late term.
A statement said: "All of her hormonal and behavioural signs now indicate that she had conceived and carried a foetus until late term, but then lost it."
Tian Tian (Sweetie) has been keeping her carers at Edinburgh Zoo guessing over her possible pregnancy since she was artificially inseminated in April.
In August, experts noted signs that she had been successfully fertilised and it was hoped a panda cub would be born by September.
