In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at ...

A remarkably well-preserved giant panda fossil, estimated to be over 10,000 years old, has just been discovered in a cave in the Shaanxi province of China. “Previously, only scattered giant ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

That mania persists. Currently at least 20 zoos outside China boast giant panda displays. (For a time China gifted pandas to foreign countries; now the government rents out pairs for a million ...

The giant panda is a firm favourite when we are talking about cute animals, but there is much more to these bears than meets their black-patched eyes. There is much more to these bears than meets ...

The giant panda has evolved to live on a diet of bamboo Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, according to satellite data. The forests where the panda ...

It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Sichuan, China, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives San Diego Zoo California, 2024 Nearly three ...

The key movements were: In 1957, giant panda Ping Ping was sent to the former Soviet Union, the first sent overseas as a state gift; in 1959, An An followed suit. Between 1965 and 1980 ...

Now, a multi-institution team may well have found one – they’ve successfully taken regular giant panda skin cells, and ...

There’s lush new sod in the National Zoo’s giant panda compound. There’s a new panda “hammock,” made out of strips of fire hose. And there are 40 new cameras in the Pandacam system.

Giant pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li, both 3 years old, are headed for the National Zoo, but won’t be on display to visitors for at least several weeks.

Giant panda cubs Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao are shown to the media at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo in the capital’s Taito Ward on March 23. The animals went on public display two and a half months ago. (Nobuo ...