San Diego Zoo's Panda Celebrates Birthday
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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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"Gu Gu" is one of the star attractions at the Beijing Zoo but the panda bear with a bad temper has lashed out at a fan for the second time, this time mauling a 15-year-old boy.
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Two giant pandas from China are headed for Spain in a goodwill gesture promised during the Spanish king's visit to Beijing earlier this year, state media reported Friday.
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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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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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The Los Angeles Zoo's oldest elephant is poised to live out her remaining days at an animal sanctuary in central California after years of lobbying by animal activists for her retirement to a preserve.
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The world&#39;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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The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was much smaller than its modern day counterpart, scientists say
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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.
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San Diego's most popular resident finally met her fans, up close and personal: Giant panda cub Zhen Zhen made her public debut Saturday at the San Diego Zoo.
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By John Florez  Of all the birthdays I remember, the one that brings the fondest memories is that of the Virgen de Guadalupe, celebrated every Dec. 12.
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Berlin Zoo's star polar bear cub Knut welcomed his millionth visitor Thursday, showing he hasn't lost his drawing power even if he's growing up.
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The first panda in Europe to be conceived naturally by animals in captivity is born at a zoo in Vienna.
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Paleontologists have discovered the skull of the giant panda&#39;s earliest known ancestor, a &quot;pygmy-sized&quot; bear that lived in south China about two million years ago, according to a study released Monday.
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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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CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- After years of painstaking research, scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world's most beloved but endangered animals, China's giant panda.
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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.