A sick and aged wild giant panda has been recovering under the care by experts in the past six days in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The sick wild giant panda was found in the Hongkou National Nature Reserve in Longxi County of Sichuan. After 6 days’ cure and 9 days’ living with its breeders, the
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Anton Baotic from Vienna, Austria investigated the acoustic communication in newborn giant pandas in Bifengxia. Now he is looking for more funding for his my PhD acoustic comparative studies on different mammalian non-human species. You can help him by voting for him on the stipendium.de website. ***** DEADLINE May 11 ***** Please support this research
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The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province moved giant panda Tao Tao to its new home Thursday morning for the third and final stage of wild training, a key stage for releasing it into the wild. Accompanied by his mother Cao Cao, Tao Tao was
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On March 27, 2012, LeoUU, was at the Shanghai Zoo. She took some pictures of Zhuang Mei who catched a bird. LeoUU thinks it was a sparrow, and the two other pandas, Min Min and A Ling, didn’t want to have anything to do with the bird… But Zhuang Mei reminds us to the fact
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Duo Duo and Ya Xiang have been moved from Bifengxia to the Zoo in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. Duo Duo, You You’s daughter born in 2006 in Wolong, was at the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo with Cui Cui, they left on April 5, 2012 to go back to Sichuan. Ya Xiang, born at the Chengdu Base
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A giant panda raised by the Lanzhou Zoo returned home on Tuesday night after spending two year’s medical leave in Xi’an of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The giant panda, named Lanbao, weighed 63.4 kilograms and stood 65 centimeters upon its return, a status of his healthy condition. “After receiving medical treatment in Xi’an, his health
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The National Zoo’s Giant panda breeding season began this year when Mei Xiang, went into estrus over the weekend of April 28-29, 2012. Li Desheng from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, and National Zoo scientists and veterinarians performed an artificial insemination Sunday night after they determined no competent
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A well-preserved skull of a giant panda found at a pit in Dudu Town, Fengdu County of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality recently. The discovery may change the history of the giant panda population. “According to archaeological experts, activities of giant pandas in the Three Gorges Reservoir area can be dated back to 6,000-7,000 years ago,
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This Sunday 29th April will see the world premiere of Panda Suite by Eddie McGuire, a unique musical partnership between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and Children’s Classic Concerts (CCC). To be unveiled live at The Macrobert in Stirling, the piece of music celebrates iconic giant pandas Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang
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A female panda has taken on the role as mother and nurser for seven cubs in southwest China’s Chengdu Panda Base, as their birth mothers are engaged in artificial insemination. Ya Ya, now 22-year-old, almost 90 years of age in human terms, has been breastfeeding and taking care of seven cubs for nearly a year.
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ZooParc de Beauval launched a program, called Panda Junior, to learn children about giant pandas. With the arrival of Huan Huan & Yuan Zi, ZooParc de Beauval is the only zoo in France with giant pandas. And they will try to teach French children about this amazing animal, when they visit the panda pair in
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Adelaide Zoo’s female Giant Panda, Funi, recently went through a pseudo-pregnancy, which saw her experience all the things she would if really pregnant. Symptoms included hormonal fluctuations, loss of appetite and prolonged episodes of sleep. This is very normal for female pandas to go through if they haven’t successfully mated during a breeding season. Senior
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The Kobe Oji Zoo has build a Memorial Statue for their beloved panda Ko Ko at their Panda Enclosure. Ko Ko died at the Kobe Oji Zoo in Japan on September 9, 2010 after a semen-extraction procedure conducted as part of a program to impregnate his partner, Tan Tan. He keeps a special place in
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Megan Owen, a conservation program manager for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research wrote this personal and touching post about conservation. A Conservation Priority: Children and Nature. Back in 2000, I had the opportunity to take my family with me on a three-month research trip to the Wolong Giant Panda Center. At the
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Today is an important day in panda history! It was forty years ago to day that the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s first giant pandas arrived in the United States. Male Hsing-Hsing and female Ling-Ling, landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland at 5 a.m. on April 16, 1972. These two giant pandas were gifts to
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From next Staurday, you can visit Zoo Atlanta’s Giant Pandas behind-the-scenes. Some dates are a joy to add to a busy schedule. Get ready to pencil in lunch with Yang Yang, Xi Lan, or Lun Lun and Po, when Giant Panda Wild Encounters open at Zoo Atlanta on Saturday, April 14, 2012. Programs offer an
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