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Pandas draw tourist hoards to safari park

A special panda festival has kicked off in the Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

Missed panda births in Japan

Whilst I was away I missed the birth of little boy and girl pandas in Japan on the 13th of September

TOKYO (AFP) — A giant panda born and raised in western Japan has given birth to two cubs, a zoo official said Sunday.

Seven-year-old Rauhin gave birth to a female and a male cub early Saturday morning at the zoo where she has spent her whole life, becoming the first Japanese-born panda to breed.

"We are very pleased to see that a giant panda who was born in this zoo gave birth," Tomoko Kumakawa, spokeswoman for Adventure World in Wakayama prefecture, told AFP.

Atlanta Panda cub doing well

Born just after I arrived in china Lun lun's baby is doing well, after concerns soon after it was born.

Atlanta’s new panda cub is finally beginning to look like his parents.

　　The infant born Aug. 31 is now covered in the black and white fur typical to giant pandas. Panda babies are born hairless, pink and about the size of a stick of butter.

　　Atlanta’s cub now weighs more than 2 pounds, up from the 4 ounces he weighed at birth. Zookeepers expect him to open his eyes for the first time in the next few days.

San Diego Blog, Panda Treats

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.

Panda Ambassador Huang Xiaoming Visits the Cubs

On October 5th, 2008, the Panda Ambassador of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Mr. Huang Xiaoming takes a special trip to Ya'an Bifengxia Base and see the two cubs he adopted. He also takes a trailer for the two cubs for their 100-day celebration. Since the Wenchuan earthquake, Huang Xiaoming concerns the giant pandas at Wolong very much. When he learns that Guo Guo gave birth to a pair of twin cubs, he applies for adopting the cubs to the Research Center and does what he can for their healthy growth.

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Chicken soup is good for the .... Pandas?

It appears that two pandas that left Wolong and set up home at Wuhan Zoo, didn't like all the comotion caused by the 10,000 visitors to the zoo during the nation's holiday and were given Chicken soup to help calm them down.

Three-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei were unsettled by the tens of thousands of visitors to Wuhan Zoo during last week's National holidays.

The pair, whose names mean "Hope" and "Greatness" in Chinese, began pacing restlessly around their enclosure, according to He Zhihua, their keeper.

Zhen Zhen to star on tv

Our loveable friend Zhenzhen over at Dan Diego Zoo will have her life so far shown on Tv.

It debuts on Sunday, September 7, at 8 p.m. on KPBS! Go behind the scenes for a rare look at her first year, as the KPBS production crew follows her story from birth to her first birthday. "Panda Tales" combines music and fun scenes of Zhen Zhen growing up while showcasing panda conservation. Don't miss it — tune in on September 7!

New panda for Atlanta Zoo's Lunlun

Lun Lun, one of Zoo Atlanta's pandas, gave birth to a cub Saturday night.

The cub was born at 10:10 p.m., according to an announcement on the zoo's Web site.

Delivery took place in a specially-constructed birthing den in the Zoo’s giant panda holding building. The cub is the only giant panda to be born in the U.S. in 2008.

“We are delighted, proud and elated,” said Dennis Kelly, Zoo Atlanta’s President and CEO. “We are just as excited as we were about Mei Lan’s (Lun Lun’s first offspring, born September 6, 2006) birth."

Lunlun's Panda taken into care

Lun lun's baby was taken into protective care after it was noticed that it had a high temperature. It was returned to Lunlun when it's temperature returned to normal.