The Wolong Panda Park Blog has released some photos of when they transfered Su Lin to the semi wild enclosure near to Wolong.

Su Lin along with 5 other pandas who were bred this year have been release in to semi wild enclosures. These enclosures are a lot bigger than the ones at Bi Feng Xia and the pandas will not interact with humans.

It is hoped that the pregnant Giant Pandas will give birth and bring up their cubs in a more natural way. This is one of the first steps of many of being able to release Giant Pandas back in to the wild.

The San Diego Zoo is planning a Black & White Overnight for Adults.

104 Days ago Bai Yun San Diego Zoo's super panda mum gave birth to her fifth cub. As is tradition in China he received his name today. (Well he should of got it after 100 days)

The public from around the world helped choose his name, from giving the initial ideas for his names down to select the one from a short list of five.

His name was revealed at a special ceremony at the Zoo's Hunte Amphitheatre.

Oh you want to know his name? Yun Zi, meaning son of cloud. His mother is Bai Yun meaning White Cloud.

The San Diego Zoo has poured over 6,331 submissions for names for their new panda cub and have managed to get it down to just five names.

Starting from Saturday October 31st through till Tuesday November 3rd you will be able to choose your favourite name online. (No link yet, I'll post it when I find out)

The result of the vote will be announanced on the pandas naming day, 12th November 2009.

Don't forget to follow the reference and read up on how the little fellow is doing.

Bai Yun's fifth cub has had it's first examination.

The examination proved that the cub is very a very healthy 1,259 gramms (2.8 pounds) and 37cm (14.7 inches), and it's a boy.

Well done to everyone at San Diego Zoo, who have put an awful lot of work into breeding pandas, so much so that they make it look like child's play.

At 4:58 local time on 5th August, a squawking panda infant was born to Bai Yun at San Diego Zoo.

For the previous 24 hours Bai Yun become more restless and taking shorter periods of rest with intermittent next building. At 2:45 she leaned back holding her feet. After a couple of hours and various positions, at 4:58 Bai Yun stood on all fours and had a series of contractions then a loud squawking was heard and Bai Yun turned to take care of her new born.

Congratulations to Bai Yun, and well done to all the staff at San Diego Zoo.

The San Diego Blog is reporting amongst other things that little Su Lin is going through her first, possibly preliminary, estrus (Panda Puberty).

It seems strange that she is now 3 1/2 years old. Where does the time go. I'm just wondering if she's going to be a "Normal" teenager and dye her fur pink, and get body jewelry.

She'll soon be going to her prom and leaving home.

Here's a wonderful blog entry about some enrichment item left with the pandas Bai Yun and baby Zhen Zhen.

The nights are getting cooler here in San Diego, and because of its location, the Giant Panda Research Station at the San Diego Zoo is coolest of all, literally and metaphorically. It’s always around ten degrees cooler here than up at the Zoo’s entrance and it stays cooler longer into the day because of the shade of the canyon walls, the trees, and the surrounding bamboo.