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 WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Zoo's giant panda cub, known to its keepers simply as "the Cub" since his birth 100 days ago, finally has a name: Tai Shan, which means "peaceful mountain."
The name, one of five proposed for the little cub, received 44 percent of the estimated 200,000 votes cast on the zoo's Web site, zoo officials said Monday.
The little panda went without a name for its first hundred days in observance of a Chinese custom. It's rare for pandas born in captivity to live more than a few days, and keeping the animals nameless is seen as a way to trick fate into letting them survive.
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