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Shock Death of Giant Panda Quan Quan

Quan Quan a 20 year old giant panda passed away without warning on the 22 of July at Jinan Zoo, China.

The cause of her death is yet not known, She will be given an autopsy to find the cause.

Quan Quan was a wild born panda captured in 1993. She was mother to 6 pandas: Xi Mei, Xiang Xiang, Fu FU, Xin Yue, Tong Tong. Xi Mei is the only panda of Quan Quan who has given birth.

Thanks to Chet for sending me this story.

Bifengxia in Complete Electrical Black Out

The Giant Panda Research Centre at Bifengxia (BFX), Sichuan, China has been without power for a couple of days and it will be a few more days until full power is restored.

BFX is built on a remote mountain two hours drive away from Chengdu. It appears that the main power supply has destroyed. Staff from the electricity company are working around the clock to repair the supply.

Currently BFX is using multiple generators to provide emergency to run the incubators for the new cubs there and other equipment needed to look after the Giant Pandas there who are due to have cubs any time.

Wonderful News A Cub for Chengdu

Jiao Zi given birth to cubs at Chengdu Giant Panda Research Centre.

Chengdu is off to a flying start this year, as they only had four cubs last year due to tired mothers.

Lets hope it will be a bumper crop of Giant Panda Cubs this year from all Research Centers and Zoos

Shuan Shuan Moves To Guadalajara, Mexico

Shuan Suan, A 22 year old Giant Panda from Chapultepec Zoo near Mexico City, has been loaned to Guadalajara Zoo until January 2011.

Shuan Shuan is one of the few Giant Pandas outside of China who does not belong to China. Most Giants pandas in zoos around the zoo belong to China and are leased by the zoos, with any children born also belonging to China and having to return when they reach two years of age.

Chinese President Ok's Pandas to go to Canada

The Chinese President Hu Jintao has given permission for Canada to proceed in discussions with Panda Reserves in obtaining a pair of pandas, which will be housed in Canada.

Toronto Zoo first began talks with the Chinese Government to obtain a pair of breeding pandas for a loan period of ten years. Then officials from Calgary and Montreal Zoos have asked to keep pandas but did not want to take them on loan for the full ten years, they proposed that all three zoos share the ten year loan, and each zoo has the pair for three years each.

Good News, 3rd Giant Panda Baby of 2010

On July 8th 2010, Zhu Yun at Bifengxai, Experts think it's a boy, and weighed 159g and was 14.8cm long at birth.

Eight year old Zhu Yun has been a mother before to twins Hu Bao & Min Min born in 2008, the father is believed to be Fifteen year old Ling Ling. Ling Ling is also the father of Tuan Tuan one of the Giant Pandas sent to Taipei.

Zhu Yun is the first Giant Panda at Bifengxia to have a baby this year. It has been reported that Bifengxia can expect up to another 28 panda mothers this year, as 29 female Giant Pandas have been mated either by AI or naturally.

One of the Beijing Cubs Dies

I've got a report from news-163.com that the Giant Panda cub who was left with Ying Hua died 20 hours after being born. Reports say that the sister who was flown to Bifengxia is doing well.

UPDATE: It appears that Ying Hua was too tired to notice that the little one had fallen off her body and was left exposed. The panda cub had a large area of haemorrhage to her right shoulder which effected her lungs

First Giant Panda Babies Born at Beijing

Wonderful news, I'm getting reports that a pair of Giant Pandas have been born at Beijing Zoological Park, China.

Tai Shan to Get Own Web Cam

Pandas International has released a newsletter stating that everyone's favourite Giant Panda Tai Shan who went to China will get his own Panda Cam.

Tanks to the generosity of Tai's friend and especially one lady who donated the cost of running a new Internet cable from Ya'an to the Bifengxia base.

The equipment has been ordered and the staff are preparing Tai Shan's Home for the work involved.

Once the cam is live I will of course update the "Panda Cams" page.

Yang Guang Trying to Cool Down

As the temperatures soar above 33 degrees centigrade (91 F) local start of Qi Qi Har Yang Guang is given a frozen fruitscicle to help cool down.

The fruitscicle is made from fresh fruit frozen in water, are well known around the world by panda lovers and are regularly given to pandas when the weather gets hot.

It takes quite a while for the panda to much it's way through the ice and fruit, and visitors can't help but stay to watch and make many videos and photographs.

Besides it's another reason to show another photo of a Giant Panda.