National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists desperate ... pandas only have 24 to 72 hours — in a year — to get pregnant. That's it. So their window of opportunity is really small ...

U.S. News // 9 years ago National Zoo panda likely pregnant: Apparent fetus found on ultrasound Washington National Zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang is likely pregnant, veterinarians said after ...

Dr. Rivera says the zoo is very proud of its success with panda reproduction and pregnancy monitoring. Other notable achievements include great strides understanding giant panda maternal behavior ...

Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated earlier this year in March using semen from the zoo's male giant panda, Tian Tian. She began exhibiting behaviors consistent with pregnancy back in June.

It was the first giant panda birth at the zoo in two years and ... with Rauhin showing signs of pregnancy in late October. The zoo had kept her away from public view since then, anticipating ...

One of the giant panda cub twins Leni or Lotti plays in an outdoor area of the Panda Garden, during their first outdoor ...

The giant panda nicknamed Sister Pig, moved into its new home on March 11 at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. She is the daughter of Mengmeng, the eldest of ...

In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at ...

The 13 panda cubs are part of the 15 pandas born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province in 2022 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

There’s panda-monium in Washington, D.C., and we aren’t talking politics. Two giant pandas are making their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Friday, January 24, giving the ...