Zoo bosses are "confident" about the pregnancy prospects for the UK's only female giant panda, amid expectations that she will be ready to mate within a fortnight.
Edinburgh Zoo staff have been monitoring Tian Tian's hormones and believe she will soon enter her brief fertile period.
They hope she and resident male panda Yang Guang will produce a cub this year as the animals both start to show the tell-tale signs that they are ready to breed.
But they warned there are no guarantees.
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