Panda News from around the world
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The San Diego Zoo blog is reporting that Bai Yun and Gao Gao have been mating naturally. We'll just have to wait now and see if the mating was a success and a new Baby Panda Cub is born later this year.
Good luck San Diego.
The wonderful giant pandas Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan who arrived in Taiwan in December 2008 and went on public display at the end of January is expecting to have their 1,000,000th visitor this weekend.
The lucky person will receive gifts with Giant Panda logos on them, these items promote the importance of environmental protection and conservation to the public.
The pair received their 500,000th visitor on February 28th.
The wonderful giant pandas Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan who arrived in Taiwan in December 2008 and went on public display at the end of January is expecting to have their 1,000,000th visitor this weekend.
The lucky person will receive gifts with Giant Panda logos on them, these items promote the importance of environmental protection and conservation to the public.
The pair received their 500,000th visitor on February 28th.
The Memphis Zoo blog is reporting that their female giant panda Ya Ya is not pregnant.Yaya was inseminated on Christmas day 2008. We've been following the video blog of the Zoo's attempts to get her pregnant. It must be a blow for all concerned. Lets hope for better luck next time.
The San Diego Zoo is warning visitors of both the zoo and the panda cams that interruptions are to be expected for the news few days as their female giant panda Bai Yun comes into season and mates with local stud Gao Gao.
On April 13th Bai Yun and Gao Gao swapped enclosures for a time so they could smell the scent of each other and get use to them, this helps with the pandas knowing each other and are more prepared to mate.
As regular readers will know San Diego Zoo launched an appeal late last year for a new cooler to keep the pandas bamboo nice and fresh. This site and some of our readers contributed to the cause and the funds were so raised.
Construction began in March and is nearer completion and should be finished in the next few days. Racks to hold the bamboo are being installed along with drainage.
These two adorable pandas are starting to think about packing their bags as they will be traveling from Bifengxia near Yaan China to Adelaide Australia.
Ok, You're way too clever the story yesterday about Yuan yuan and Tuan Tuan was an April fool. The original idea came from the Taipei Times (See the link yesterday) I thought it was really funny.
The original story was a little over board so I decided to make it a little more believable.
Lots of people googled for the story and we had triple the normal amount of visitors. I hope some of them join us in our thirst for knowledge on pandas. So if you are one of those welcome.
This is quite funny,
Happy April Fool's Day
The Taipei Times is running a story about how the pandas sent last December to Taiwan are not in fact pandas but are Wenzhou brown bears.
Keepers have become increasing suspicious over the months as new hair growth has a more brownish colour but were told by officials to keep it quiet.
This could be a political land mine waiting to go off.
Follow the reference link for some wonderful photos of our favourite friends ... the giant panda, The UK paper the Mirror has photos of last years babies born at bifengxia.