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Thirty-one giant pandas were born in captivity in China this year and 25 survived, down from last year’s figures, Chinese officials said on Thursday.
A U.S.-born panda has been greeted by crowds of well-wishers on its arrival in southwest China on Wednesday. People carrying apples and fresh bamboo shoots turned out at the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province to welcome Mei Sheng.
A male panda born in the United States four years ago will come back to his hometown in southwest China next week, according to a panda-breeding official.
Two kissing red pandas are the main attraction at a zoo in Japan. It’s panda-monium at the zoo, as the Southeast Asian-based lesser pandas are in lip-lock for over an hour a day.
The only giant panda cub born outside of Asia last year celebrates an important day. See how Mei Lan spent her first birthday.
Kung Fu Panda is a CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po (voiced by Jack Black). Po who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung.
Two male pandas born in Japan four years ago by leased parents from China will become the first overseas-born twin pandas ever to come back to China next week. Read the rest of this entry »
The San Diego Zoo’s newest baby panda will soon be getting her first look at the world around her. Zoo vets say the cub’s eyes are starting to open. Read the rest of this entry »
The breeder presents dainties to giant panda “Tao Tao” at the Jinan Zoo in Jinan. The Jinan Zoo prepared a special meal for the 35-year-old “Tao Tao”, the oldest giant panda living in captivity in China.
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