Recent Posts Tagged With 'giant panda'

• Panda gets last checkup before public debut

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 01:43 in san diego zoo, san diego union tribune, giant panda, union tribune san diego, san diego union, zoo officials, giant panda cub, san diego panda cub

  By Jeanette Steele, UNION-TRIBUNE SAN DIEGO — Panda cub Yun Zi is a bit of a brawler. But his San Diego Zoo veterinarian and keepers are taking a boys-will-be-boys attitude about it, perhaps because Tuesday was the last weekly exam the 4-month-old ...

• Zoo’s panda a handful during latest exam

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 14:20 in san diego zoo, pandas, giant panda, giant panda cub, live panda cam

  By Kristina Davis, UNION-TRIBUNE The San Diego Zoo’s 4-month-old giant panda cub was more wiggly than ever during his weekly exam Tuesday, giving veterinarians the chance to observe the strength in his legs. “Pandas move a bit differently,” sai...

• City closing in on giant panda deal

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 13:32 in national zoo, giant pandas, giant panda, toronto zoo, chongqing zoo

  By BRYN WEESE – torontosun.com Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti says the city is getting closer to securing a 10-year loan of a breeding pair of giant pandas from China. Mammoliti, who is now in China, told the Sun yesterday that Toronto officials ...

• China bars visitors from panda park over H1N1 fear

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 12:32 in conservation, times of india, giant pandas, giant panda, wild animal, panda cub, golden monkeys, giant panda sanctuaries

  Saibal Dasgupta – The Times of India BEIJING: One of the four giant panda sanctuaries in China has been closed for visitors to protect the precious animals from the risk of H1N1 flu infection. The move came last week after there was a rise in t...

• Vienna zoo’s panda Fu Long heads for China

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 15:38 in polar bear, zoos, artificial insemination, giant pandas, giant panda, zoo animal, madrid zoo, panda cub, a-zoo news, polar bear knut, schoenbrunn zoo, pandas in captivity

  (AFP) VIENNA — Fu Long the panda, Europe’s first to be conceived naturally while in captivity, is to leave his home town of Vienna for China next week, the Schoenbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital said Thursday. The giant panda, whose name mea...

• Chinese expert to help with panda reproduction in Taiwan

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 07:22 in artificial insemination, giant pandas, giant panda, sexual desires, taiwan news, communist party of china, taipei zoo, taipei municipal zoo, panda expert, wolong giant panda protection research center

  TAIWAN NEWS Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) A Chinese expert on giant panda breeding, in Taiwan as part of delegation promoting trade and economic exchanges with Taiwan, will visit Taipei Zoo Nov. 8 to help two giant pandas that were given by China to Taiwan la...

• Chinese pandas tokens of friendship: Australian zoo officer

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 08:29 in endangered species, london zoo, adelaide zoo, giant pandas, giant panda, australia china, adelaide australia, chinese national treasure

  by Xinhua writer Jiang Yaping ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — The arrival of pandas in Australia this December would be a significant historic event marking the strong friendship between China and Australia, said Chris West, CEO of Adel...

• Zoo’s panda cub progressing on pace

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 13:32 in san diego zoo, giant panda, giant panda cub

  UNION-TRIBUNE SAN DIEGO – Awakened from a nap by veterinary staff, the 11-week-old giant panda cub fell back asleep during part of his weekly medical exam Tuesday. The zoo’s senior veterinarian, Beth Bicknese, says the male cub is growing nic...

• Studying Panda’s Chirps Reveals The Language Of Love

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 11:00 in animal lovers, births, giant pandas, giant panda, zoo atlanta, yang yang, mei lan, panda cubs, chirps

  Marc Pickard – 11alive.com ATLANTA — The giant pandas at Zoo Atlanta have given animal lovers great joy over the ten years they’ve been here. But they’ve given science even more. Now, when pandas talk, researchers are listenin...