text:  Plus, newborn panda cubs are incredibly tiny and helpless. They come out pink and wrinkly and are smaller than a potato. Ultimately, that first panda couple had five babies together over 20 years, but none of them survived due to pneumonia, stillbirth, lack of oxygen, or other infections. But after that panda couple died in the 90s, the National Zoo needed to succeed with the next couple, Mei Xiang and Qian Qian, who arrived in 2000.