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A college student who crept into the panda pen at a south China park hoping to get closer to the cuddly bear ended up in hospital. Read the rest of this entry »
Twin cubs, born to giant panda Rauhin at the Adventure World amusement park in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, in September, are named Meihin and Eihin. Read the rest of this entry »
There may be more sick wild giant pandas this winter after the major earthquake hit the famed animals’ habitat and caused their food shortage, experts said. Read the rest of this entry »
Panda cubs born after the devastating Chinese earthquake appear to be healthy. The mother had to be evacuated from the Wolong National Nature Reserve. Cubs Pingping and Anan were the only panda twins born in the world in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Panda twins Pingping and Anan rest during an activity to celebrate their 100th day after birth at the China Panda Protection and Research Center at Bifengxia in Ya’an of southwest China’s Sichuan province Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
A carer looks after a giant panda cub in an incubator, one of the first twins delivered here this year, at the Bifengxia base of China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center on October 24, 2008 in Yaan of Sichuan Province, China. Read the rest of this entry »
A 14-year-old female giant panda called Meimei has died. Officials with the Adventure World amusement park in Japan said Meimei’s age was equivalent to about 50-years-old for a human. Meimei gave birth to eight cubs in Japan after giving birth to two in China. Read the rest of this entry »
Chinese scientists have completed sequencing the genome of giant pandas. They hope the new information will give them a better biological understanding of why pandas eat bamboo and why they have black circles around their eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Almost half of Hong Kong’s aid package to help China’s quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government said Sunday.
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A giant panda in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture has given birth to twins, marking the first successful birth by a Japanese-born panda, officials say. Read the rest of this entry »