Panda twins born in China as cub numbers boom
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A panda in southwest China has given birth to twins, adding to a cub boom that is giving new hope to the endangered species, state media has said.
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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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For pandas, it's practically a baby boom. Two giant pandas were born this week, and mothers and cubs were doing fine, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
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China's first panda cub of the year has survived the crucial first three days of her life, state media reported Monday.
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ATLANTA -- After seven years of trying and hoping, Zoo Atlanta officials announced a rare giant panda birth Wednesday, one of only a few in the United States. Lun Lun, a 9-year-old giant panda, gave birth just before 5 p.m. after 35 hours of labor.
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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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They were born within minutes of each other, but the British twins celebrating their first birthday Wednesday are far from identical: one of the girls is black while the other is white with blond hair and blue eyes.
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SAN DIEGO - On his first birthday Thursday, giant panda cub Mei Sheng delighted visitors by playing for the first time in snow delivered to him at the San Diego Zoo. He also sat on his ice cake, wrestled with his mom, got his coat incredibly dirty, and didn't read any of the more than 700 birthday wishes sent him via e-mail from as far away as Ireland and Argentina...
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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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(InfoWorld) - Chinese police have arrested eight people in connection with the release of a computer virus known as Panda Burning Incense, according to an official news report. Among those arrested was Li Jun, a 25-year-old man from Wuhan, in central China, the official Xinhua News Agency said on its Web site. Li allegedly sold copies of the worm to 120 people, earning 100,000 renminbi ($12,876) from the sales, the report said, citing a statement from the Hubei Province Public Security Bureau. The arrests are the first in China for virus writing, Xinhua said. Panda Burning Incense, which is known by several other names, including Fujacks and Radoppan.T, was written in October 2006 and first attracted the attention of authorities and antivirus experts in January. The virus attacks the Windows operating system. Antivirus specialist SophosÂ last month described Panda Burning Incense as a "parasitic virus," which infects executable files on a PC. When infected, the icon of the executable file changes to an image of a panda holding three sticks of incense -- a traditional way of praying in China. The virus also allows attackers to circumvent some security processes on infected computers and spreads by attacking shared network resources. In a statement, Sophos said the virus does not present a risk of widespread infection, as the altering of program icons makes infection obvious. The company also discounted reports of widespread infection, saying it received only "one or two" such reports.
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SHANGHAI, China - The birth of twin pandas at a research center brought the number of the endangered species born in captivity this year in China to a record 25, a news report said Tuesday.
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About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the famed vegetarian bear except about half the size, scientists said.
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BEIJING - China's tiny population of park-bred pandas will all be discreetly tattooed before being released into bamboo forests to integrate with the larger wild panda community, an official said Monday.
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A shortage of the staple food of China's giant panda will leave 19 of the rare animals scrounging to keep hunger at bay for as long as a decade in a reserve in the mountainous southwest, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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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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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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ATLANTA Dec 14, 2004 - Two twin sisters are seeing double or make that quadruple after delivering two sets of twin boys Tuesday. Twenty-one-year-olds Ashlee Spinks of Indianapolis and Andrea Springer of