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Crowds greet giant pandas

TWO giant pandas have been greeted by a crowd of thousands as they arrived at the world-renowned Beauval Zoo in the heart of the chateaux of the Loire. Hours earlier Yuan Zi et Huan Huan had touched down at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airp [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Smithsonian’s National Zoo to announce gift to fund panda pr...

The National Zoo is preparing to announce a major gift that will fund its giant panda program for five more years. Zoo scientists on Monday also will announce their 2012 breeding plan for Washington’s pandas with China’s ambas [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Giant pandas settling in 'very well' at Edinburgh zoo

Edinburgh zoo has said the giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang are settling in "very well". After their marathon, nine-hour overnight flight from Chengdu, in China, to Edinburgh, they adopted the normal routine for jetsetters, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

British zoo welcomes giant pandas from China

Two giant pandas are set to arrive at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland on Sunday on a eagerly anticipated ten-year loan from China, agreed after years of high-level political and diplomatic negotiations. Yang Guang (Sunshine) and Tian Tian (Swee [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Edinburgh Zoo pandas to arrive from China on Sunday

Tian Tian and Yang Guang will make the journey from China in perspex cages on board a special chartered flight. They will be the first pandas to live in the UK for 17 years. The pandas, who will live in separate enclosures, will be given [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo shoots abroad for the pandas’ five-a-day

Edinburgh Zoo is to import the majority of the bamboo needed to feed its new pandas from a farm on mainland Europe – with emergency supplies grown on the site of the zoo itself and elsewhere in the UK. The imported bamboo is se [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Former Atlanta Panda is Male, Not Female

Turns out a panda born at Atlanta's zoo and returned to China for breeding will end up being a dad and not a mom as originally thought. Rebecca Snyder, curator of mammals at Zoo Atlanta, said zoo staff and a researcher from the p [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Red panda raised by hand at Edmonton zoo raises her own baby

A red panda raised by hand at the Edmonton Valley Zoo is successfully raising a baby of her own. The female cub was born Aug. 1 and is named Qiji, which means “miracle” in Mandarin. Qiji’s mother Pip was born at the zoo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

No new panda cub for Zoo this year

For the fifth year in a row, the National Zoo announced Friday that despite its intensive scientific efforts, its female giant panda, Mei Xiang, has again failed to get pregnant. After days of waiting for the panda’s months-long rep [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

National Zoo again watches and waits, hoping for a baby pand...

The National Zoo has entered the height of its annual panda pregnancy watch, in which teams of zoo pandaphiles keep a 24-hour-a-day vigil to see whether the female giant panda, Mei Xiang, might give birth to a cub.Mei’s reproduction [...]

Posted On : Jun, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Female Giant Panda's Hormones on the Rise

Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo detected a secondary rise in urinary progesterone levels in the Zoo’s female giant panda Mei Xiang ( may-SHONG ). This hormone rise indicates that it should be 40 to 50 days before [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Charity regulator launches probe into Edinburgh Zoo panda de...

CHARITY regulators have launched an investigation into Edinburgh Zoo's business plan for the deal which will bring two giant pandas from China.The move follows a complaint by Animal Concern, which claims the cost of "renting" [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo officials puzzled by panda bite

Officials at the San Diego Zoo say they are trying to figure out why a giant panda named Bai Yun bit a caretaker, sending her to a hospital. Zoo officials say they are puzzled by the panda's action. "We have never had an in [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

San Diego Zoo says giant panda bit a worker

A giant panda has bitten a caretaker at the San Diego Zoo. The San Diego Union-Tribune says female panda, Bai Yun, bit a keeper Sunday after wandering out of her habitat at the zoo's giant panda research station. The Union-Tribune sa [...]