In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at ...

The giant panda's distinct black-and-white markings have two functions: camouflage and communication. Most of the panda - its face, neck, belly, rump - is white to help it hide in snowy habitats. The ...

Animal care staff and scientists have studied giant panda biology, behavior, breeding, reproduction, and disease. The Zoo team and colleagues have made groundbreaking advances in reproductive science, ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

(CNN)-- Gu Gu is not your typical soft and cuddly giant panda. For the third time, he's tasted the flesh of an unwitting intruder in his pen at Beijing Zoo. His most recent victim was 28-year-old ...

The giant panda is a firm favourite when we are talking about cute animals, but there is much more to these bears than meets their black-patched eyes. There is much more to these bears than meets ...

The urge to scoop her up and squeeze her is overwhelming. That adorability is one reason the giant panda is an international sensation as well as a cultural icon, an economic gold mine ...

That mania persists. Currently at least 20 zoos outside China boast giant panda displays. (For a time China gifted pandas to foreign countries; now the government rents out pairs for a million ...

1. How many pandas are left in the world? China currently has about 1,000 giant pandas in the wild, most of them living on the mountains around the Sichuan Basin, southwest China，according to ...

The key movements were: In 1957, giant panda Ping Ping was sent to the former Soviet Union, the first sent overseas as a state gift; in 1959, An An followed suit. Between 1965 and 1980 ...

1. Can you spot the real panda? Despite sharing a common name, red pandas are not closely related to giant pandas—often considered the real panda. Phylogenetically, the red panda falls under a unique ...

In February, the San Diego Zoo announced it will be getting a new pair of pandas, Xin Bao and Yun Chuan. In April, the San ...