Pandas Face Years Before Next Favorite Solid Meal
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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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Tech-savvy giant pandas can now pick up their email or browse the web to find a perfect panda partner thanks to the deployment of a campus-wide broadband and wireless network in China&#39;s Wolong Nature Reserve.
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The world&#39;s dwindling panda population is getting a helping hand from a wireless internet network. The Wolong Nature Reserve in the Sichuan Province of southwest China is home to 20% of the remaining 1,500 giant pandas in the world.
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SAN DIEGO  The San Diego Zoo&#39;s giant panda cub Mei Sheng will celebrate his first birthday today.
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The world's only artificially bred panda living in the wild has fallen to its death less than a year after it was released, possibly after a fight with other pandas, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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1st LD-Writethru: 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 through artificial insemination this year, 28 of whom have survived.
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The new baby panda at Zoo Atlanta is a girl. Zoo staff members removed the tiny bear from its birthing den Monday for the first time, 19 days after Zoo Atlanta's panda Lun Lun gave birth to the new cub, and determined its sex during a 10-minute medical checkup.
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One year ago, he was nearly hairless, pink and weighed about four ounces, less than most bagels. On Sunday, his first birthday, giant panda Tai Shan is an active, 56-pound cub and the star attraction of the National Zoo.
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BEIJING, July 12 -- A system to monitor food safety will go into effect during test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month, a Chinese government watchdog announced Thursday, even as a TV station aired an undercover investigation showing how shredded cardboard was used as a filling in ste...
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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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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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The Chinese New Year is a week old now and slowly life is getting back to normal in China. Even the firecrackers will stop waking me up at 6 in the morning, at least that&#8217;s what I hope. It&#8217;s the year of the golden pig, supposedly a lucky year to have a baby and I [...]
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A panda at the Memphis Zoo is definitely pregnant, officials there said Wednesday. Ya Ya, a giant panda, was artificially inseminated in January after she and a male companion failed at mating the old-fashioned way.
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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 has selected a pair of giant pandas &#151; Wangwang and Funi &#151; to send to the Adelaide Zoo, an official said Wednesday, in a goodwill gesture announced during a recent visit to Australia by President Hu Jintao.
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Dieters hoping for a slew of new products with the sugar substitute Splenda may be disappointed next year.
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The company has to confront concerns over genetically modified foods soon if it hopes to keep growing.