'Atlanta Beauty': Zoo names new panda
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Children sang and performers put on a lively dance Friday as Zoo Atlanta unveiled the name of the nation's newest panda cub &#151; Mei Lan, a 12-poundu ball of adorableness too young to attend the hoopla.
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The oldest panda raised in captivity has died at an eastern China zoo at the age of 33, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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Washington's National Zoo, beset by  a series of unusual animal deaths and charges of mismanagement,  introduced its first litter of endangered cheetah cubs on  Friday with fanfare befitting some rare good news.
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Zoo Atlanta announced the birth of a giant panda cub Wednesday. On its official Web site, the zoo said the cub was born to Lun Lun at 4:51p.m. ET.
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Chinese zoo tragedy A giant panda at a zoo in China's Chongqing municipality is inconsolable after she nodded off and crushed one of her two-day-old twin cubs to death.â¦
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It's doubtful the first giant panda cub born at Zoo Atlanta will have a twin, a zoo official said Thursday.
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Endangered giant pandas have boosted their numbers in the wild by almost half in just a few years thanks to enlarged habitat and improved ecosystems, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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The National Zoo's panda mother might be pregnant for the second time in two years, zoo officials said Thursday, citing a spike in Mei Xiang's hormone levels.
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China has 221 pandas bred in captivity    BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China currently has 221 pandas that have been bred in captivity with 32 panda cubs born using artificial insemination this year, 28 of whom have survived.
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CHICAGO - In what her keepers call "Maggie's Extreme Makeover," one of Brookfield Zoo's female orangutans has had her appearance and zeal restored through treatment for a previously undiagnosed thyroid condition.
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Scientists using DNA samples have doubled their estimates of the wild panda population in a nature sanctuary in China, in a finding they say bodes well for the survival of one of the world&#039;s endangered species.
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A 16-month-old giant panda born at half the weight of most newborn pandas is growing into a normal, healthy animal in southwest China, state media reported Thursday.
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A giant panda who delivered a cub on Thursday actually gave birth to twins but one died, an Austrian zoo says.
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A giant panda in southwest China has given birth to a pair of twins, state media said, the latest additions in a baby boom for the endangered animals. Ya Ya, who lives in the Chongqing Zoo, delivered the babies about an hour apart early Tuesday, China News Service said.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - Overseas tsunami victims will be getting help from an elephant born in Thailand but now living at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art -painted- by "Rasha" will be auctioned off on e-Bay -- beginning tomorrow.
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A U.S.-born giant panda has given birth  to twin cubs in a research centre in southwest China, state  media reported on Tuesday, its third pair of twins so far.
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BEIJING  - The oldest panda raised in captivity has died at an eastern China zoo at the age of 33, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.